Wheat offers more than one end use Because of wheat’s flexibility, Bell said, it provides many producers an opportunity to harvest for grain or for forage based on markets or weather. With recent ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Many Hoosier producers who planted winter wheat may not be familiar with managing the crop as a forage, a Purdue University experts say. Growers used emergency provisions from ...

Wheat harvest is upon us and that leads us to be thinking about some forage opportunities after harvest is complete. There is plenty of growing season left this year and there are several forage ...

As the harvest – weather permitting, hopefully draws to a close, this month seems like a good time to talk about how this year’s cropping has gone for us. In addition to 154ha of grass (permanent and ...

This year’s severe drought increases the likelihood of herbicide carryover on fall-seeded crops, states the University of Missouri agronomist Kevin Bradley. “While it is difficult to predict exactly ...

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

The big rain of February and March last year has been repeated in a similar pattern this year and we have had a great spring growing season and a wet hay harvest in between. Those growers with regular ...

Dairy farmers facing a shortfall in forage need to react now and secure feed with prices and supplies of alternative feed options expected to worsen. Already feed prices have gone up on average by 30% ...

The harvesting of unripe green wheat for silage, which recently raised concerns, was due to shortages of corn silage at a few cow breeding farms in North China's plain area, a dairy industry official ...

Dairy farmers’ ability to produce homegrown fodder this season have been hampered by low allocations of their high-security water entitlements and high temporary water prices. Water allocations are as ...