Agricultural Technician for the Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District Wyatt Feldner offers tips to mitigate ...

Hay that has been cut and then rained on can lose quality in four ways. These include: 1) leaching of soluble carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, 2) increased and prolonged plant respiration ...

What’s Your Crop’s Life Expectancy? - The intensity of cutting management (the number of cuttings made per year) should be based on the desired quality and life expectancy of the crop.

The damage is now showing, and large amounts of canola and barley are being cut for hay. At Winchendonvale in southern NSW, Dermot McCormack said his crops experienced large-scale damage due to ...

Hand-cut steaks are steaks that are trimmed by a butcher rather than a machine. You might be thinking: aren't machines better ...

Katharine Hay writes about the travails of restarting her journey on foot around Scotland ‘More haste, less speed’ was the sort of proverb uttered by someone you looked up to as a child when ...

Alternatively, those who have already bought cereal hay but have concerns could also do the testing themselves to prove the fodder is clean. It is uncertain how withholding periods affect cut hay.

Producers of pasture-based livestock should assess and document loss of hay from Tropiçal Storm Helene as soon as possible, including with photos.

15. The hay market remains sluggish although there has been reports of some supplemental feeding occurring due to drought. According to last week’s NASS Kansas Crop Report, alfalfa hay ...

Temperatures dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius, meaning some crops will need to be cut for hay. This year's canola crop had promised to be Terry Walker's best in 40 years of farming in southern ...

Eleanor Gilbert said: "If we don't make a profit, our whole business is gone realistically." One of the wettest Julys on record has left the UK's farmers desperate for drier weather to harvest ...

The government pledged to slash the pollen count in half over the next 30 years to make life more tolerable for the millions of people in Japan who suffer from hay fever each spring. It aims to ...