Corn grown as the first or second crop after alfalfa usually requires much less fertilizer or manure nitrogen (N) than corn grown after corn, soybeans or small grains. When alfalfa is killed, some of the accumulated N in the soil and in ...
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Even with a heavy dose of snow, ice and freezing temperatures early in the new year, the hay trade in Oklahoma remains extremely sluggish. That’s the observation of Jack Carson, market reporter for the Oklahoma Department of ...
Despite alfalfa’s declining acreage and use in many dairy rations, alfalfa breeders are excited about the legume’s future. The past two years, two companies have been putting considerable effort into building up their ...
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Foliar fungicides such as Headline appear to reduce levels of foliar disease in alfalfa, public research trials conclude. But only 25% of trial comparisons have shown higher yields, and improved forage quality has been minimal, say two ...
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Strong demand is keeping a floor under hay prices in Indiana, reports hay grower Dennis Smeltzer.Photo: Rick Mooney Demand for high-quality hay in wintry weather as the new year began put upside pressure on prices in northern Indiana, ...
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Authorities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region are considering building a successful business model for ecological industry on the vast prairies, but it's not a straightforward task. Wang Kaihao reports from Hohhot. It has been six ...
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Supplies of high-quality alfalfa hay in Pennsylvania are low heading into winter months. But they're likely not low enough to move prices significantly higher in the months to come, says Marvin Hall, Penn State University Extension forage ...
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Idaho alfalfa hay prices will rise or fall in 2014 based largely on how much irrigation water will be available during the growing season, says Glenn Shewmaker, forage specialist with University of Idaho Extension. "Right now, a lot of ...
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It was years in the making, but Dave Fink is now the exclusive manufacturer of a Purina Animal Nutrition horse-hay product called Hydration Hay. A commercial hay grower from Germansville, PA, Fink worked with the feed company to develop a ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Niche Horse-Hay Market
Lower corn prices in 2014 will likely keep a lid on Western hay prices, predicted Seth Hoyt, hay market analyst and keynote speaker at last week's Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV. Supreme alfalfa hay prices, he added, should ...
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Remember to take nitrogen credits when you use other nitrogen sources. There are simple management practices that farms can implement to optimize nitrogen applications as well as protect groundwater from nitrogen leaching. One of the ...
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While the aftermath of Winter Storm Atlas is still felt by ranchers, growers of field and forage crops in storm-hit areas of western South Dakota might see an unexpected positive outcome for the coming season when it comes to insect ...
Forage testing is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well as non-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulating rations, and determining potential toxicities or other problems (i.e., prussic acid, ...
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US agriculture readies for China's baby boom? Apple's revamped 'Siri' takes on agriculture's questions California: Home of the food lawsuit Just as the State of California was readying growers for what they pretty much expected – ...
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About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
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