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“Hay harvest is approaching, and producing high-quality hay reduces cattle supplementation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Davis discusses harvest ...

Joe Dice couldn’t get to the phone Monday morning. He was too busy making his first cut of alfalfa and grass hay and baling it at his place on Silt Mesa. “Last year, it was really spotty. We hardly ...

As growers finish cutting of hay crops, now is a good time to do preventative maintenance tasks that can boost farm profits and protect farm workers, says a safety research associate and lecturer from ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

April is winding down and May is just around the corner. Forage producers are getting ready to start fertilizing and the subsequent harvesting of their warm-season grasses for hay. I have been asked ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - I’ve had more people than typical ask me about harvesting hay late this fall. It’s true that many livestock producers will regularly bale hay late in the fall. Others plan to get ...

For New Hampshire farmers who grow hay, the past couple of years have presented a bit of a Goldilocks situation. Last summer was too dry. This summer has been too wet. And that's a bad ending for this ...

There’s nothing quite like being a farmer, Mike Schuppe said over the buzz of machinery as he worked the hay fields at his farm northeast of Sterling. There’s nothing like the hard work it takes to ...

ROCK VALLEY, Iowa. - Big supplies. Poor quality. That summarizes the hay market in 2018, says Paul McGill, owner-manager of Rock Valley (Iowa) Hay Auction Co. "Every year is different," McGill says, ...

Most stockmen are close to being able to graze on cool season grasses that were either planted in the fall or have volunteered on their own. Have you been able to make the transition yet? Even for ...

DRACUT — Requests for proposals went out last month for the harvesting of hay from a trio of town-owned properties. But the town allowed hay to be harvested on one of the properties before the land ...