After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops cattle farmers are using to stretch fall grazing.
As of March 31, year-over-year stocks of wheat, canola, and soybeans were lower, while inventories of corn, barley and oats were larger, according to Statistics Canada’s Stocks of Principal Field Crops report, released Friday, May 6.
Consumers in New York and California sued PepsiCo Inc.’s Quaker Oats for false advertising over claims that the brand’s signature product contains a possible carcinogen that is not listed as an ingredient.
Canadian farmers intend to plant more peas, lentils, barley, and corn this spring but fewer acres of wheat, canola, soybeans, and oats compared to a year ago, according to Statistics Canada’s Principal Field Crop Areas’ March Farm Survey.
The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop progress report that 44 percent of the spring wheat, 43 percent of the oats and 14 percent of the barley crop is in the ground.
While oats make up a small portion of acreage in the farms participating in this study, oats were most profitable in 2014 due to straw production and aftermath grazing.
A resurvey of hundreds of small grains farmers in eight Upper Midwest and West states has resulted in only minor changes to the federal government's official estimates of the nation's wheat, barley and oats crops.
After harvesting a wheat field six weeks ago, Indiana farmer Paul Russell planted sunflowers, sunnhemp, pearl millet, oilseed radishes, Austrian winter peas, oats, cowpeas, sorghum-sudangrass and Ethiopian cabbage in the field.
