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FARMINGTON -- Navajo Agricultural Products Industry is running out of alfalfa hay, a spokeswoman said Monday."We are actually possibly going to run out of hay by Saturday,” said marketing assistant Rae DeGroat. “It could go on till next week, but we wanted the public to be aware of this information.”
Ohio professor offers practical ways to boost net margins.
Pioneer experts say strong plant genetics paired with BMR gene offer premium silage.
HUTCHINSON - Extreme heat and a severe water shortage have chopped this year’s corn crop drastically across Kansas, especially for dryland corn.This time of year usually is hectic across the state as grain trucks line up to dump harvested corn at grain elevators. But those trucks are only trickling in as farmers come to grips with a grim harvest they hope is only a one-year anomaly.
In a world of increased feed costs, uncooperative weather and problems with forage quality, high milk prices and strong demand are helping some dairy producers make ends meet.
Food prices are expected to rise as the corn surplus shrinks due to a hot summer, which likely scorched this year’s corn crop.
By Josh Rhotenjrhoten@wyomingnews.comCHEYENNE - Drought conditions across the U.S. have created a unique situation for Wyoming ranchers.Demand for hay continues to grow, sparking an increase in prices.Monte Lerwick, a rancher and farmer in Albin, said he was seeing a rise in prices, even for low-quality hay, because of the high demand."Our hay prices have been really high this year, and we have started to bundle it up into larger bails to send to other places because of the demand,” he said. “It doesn’t even really matter if it’s high quality or not, people just need it because of that drought.”
Corn conception, and development, is poorly understood. So biology professor Virginia Walbot devotes her career to tackling one of botany’s big puzzles: the sex life of corn.
“The feed situation is as bad as I’ve seen it in my 50 years of dairy farming,” says Larry Purdon, MDA president and Purdy, Mo. dairy farmer.
Method saves fuel, labor and equipment costs, also reduces soil disturbance and dust.
At $23.62 per cwt., June 2011’s overall monthly dairy cost of production is the highest since 2008.
Dr. Sun led the development of hybrid alfalfa
Cool, damp spring weather followed by the recent heat means that grasses are at increased likelihood of becoming infected with ergot bodies.
Grain futures prices traded on the Dalian and Zhengzhou commodity exchanges are expected to maintain at high levels though China has achieved an increase in summer grain output for the eighth year running this year, analysts say.
Mike Meier is a fourth-generation dairy farmer. Instead of feeding the cows all the grain they can handle, Meier uses an intensive grazing process that cuts his production costs dramatically.
Pasture-based dairy is a great niche in Missouri.
Mike Meier says his pasture-based seasonal milking herd of 110 cows makes more money and takes less work than the old-style dairy.
On a national basis, since the beginning of the new hay year, May 1, alfalfa set record highs prices in both May and June.
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Corn prices fell Friday on concerns about global demand after the government reported a drop in export sales.
National Corn Growers Association says new peer-reviewed research disproves anti-ethanol myth.
Almond hulls should be in good supply for dairies next year.
The price and supply of corn remains Beijing’s top food security concern as the country’s demand for feed grain and corn-related industrial products continues to rise, analysts say.
Group refutes ‘bogus claims’ against the ethanol industry.
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and 25 of his House colleagues called on President Barack Obama to release willing farmers from their Conservation Reserve Program
Genetically-modified corn hybrids that are Roundup Ready and resistant to Western corn rootworm show no difference in milk yield or components
Soybean checkoff study shows value of number one customer.