Have you ever wondered if you should plant smooth bromegrass or meadow brome? Here’s a quick explanation that I gave when someone emailed me that exact question.
Read MoreRenovating an Alfalfa Field with Frosty Berseem Clover
Frosty Berseem Clover provides many benefits for an existing alfalfa field. Improved yield, improved quality, and extending the life of the stand can help producers looking to get more profitability out of an older field.
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How to Manage Your Horse Pastures in the Winter
A recent article posted by Michaela King on the Hay & Forage Grower website challenged us to consider how to best handle our horse pastures over the winter. Often times the temptation is to leave the horses out as much as possible, but this article challenges horse owners to rethink that strategy.
Once pastures are grazed down in the fall, transition horses to hay and house them in a dry lot, keeping them off pastures until the next year when forage regrowth reaches 6 to 8 inches. This practice is similar to rotational grazing during the growing season; however, in the fall, forage growth has stopped.
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Rick Clark of Clark Land & Cattle, Williamsport, Indiana, stands in a field with cover crop covers that will be planted with corn or soybeans. Since farming green, Rick has made significant reductions to inputs while seeing an uplift in cash crop yields.
How to cut input costs while improving cash crop yields
A 27.5 percent decrease in synthetic nitrogen, 49.5 percent decrease in farm diesel, 91.8 percent decrease in MAP (monoammonium phosphate) and a 100 percent decrease in both lime and potash applications – these are just a few of the impressive input reductions Clark Land & Cattle have made from 2011 to 2018 – while improving yield averages year on year.
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A cash crop farmer’s advice for a successful cover crop
A 14-year veteran to cover cropping, Dave has many words of wisdom from lessons learned for his fellow producers venturing into cover crops for the first time.
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