With July 1st just around the corner, Mark Sulc, OSU Extension Forage Agronomist, and Bill Weiss, OSU Extension Dairy Nutritionist, help address this year's forage dilemma. If one is looking for quality and quantity, what are your best options?
This time of year growers are under a lot of pressure to buy seed, as seed salesmen pursue seed commitments through volume pricing and early purchase incentives often before the current year's yield trial results are available.
During a 3-year transition to twin-row silage corn, alfalfa, double-cropped wheat/soybeans and cover crops, these Pennsylvania no-tillers have seen steady yield increases and soil improvement.
We live in an area of Lancaster County, Pa., where small dairy farms of 50 to 60 cows are common and fields are small. Many of the farms are Amish-owned, where real horses provide the power.
Making the transition to no-till was a big step for Lapp Brothers Farms in making their soils more productive. But to get even more yield and tonnage out of corn silage meant taking a narrower view.
The first time I saw what Dwayne Beck was doing on the irrigation research farm near Redfield, S.D. (before he developed the Dakota Lakes Research Farm), I knew we were on the verge of a new type of crop production in our area.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Brian and Darren Hefty, fourth-generation farmers and hosts of Ag PhD, share tips for treating tar spot in corn.
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