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Planning for Fall and Winter Forage
As of Oct. 5, 2009, El Nino was still present across the equatorial Pacific Ocean with sea surface temperatures at least 1° C above average and expected to strengthen, lasting through the winter. ...
Feeding Hay With Herbicide Residues
Many of you winter cows on corn stalks or other crop residues....
Growers Continue to Face Harvesting Challenges From Cool, Wet Summer
While the rains have stopped and harvest is progressing, Kentucky growers continue to deal with the ramifications of a cool, wet growing season....
Identifying Cows That Gain More While Eating Less
With more than 2 million cows on 68,000 farms, Missouri is the third-largest beef producer in the nation. ...
Fall and Winter Feeding Management Tips
Cattlemen are faced with a host of decisions they have to make but the period in advance of the upcoming fall and winter tends to be the most stressful....
Salvaging Soybeans As Hay And Silage
Late-planted soybeans that don’t mature before the fall frost can be salvaged as hay or silage, says Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist. ...
Haying Wet Meadows That Are Too Wet
Wet meadows are a great resource. ...
Start of Bearish Slide For Corn?
USDA’s Aug. 12 corn crop production estimate is likely too low and forecasts for corn use and exports too high, which will add even more bearishness to corn once the information is digested by the market, according to Richard Feltes, an analyst with MF Global, speaking at a CME Group press briefing....
Phase-Feeding the Beef Herd for Improved Feed Utilization
Proper nutritional status is critical for optimal production efficiency in the beef cow herd. ...
Grain Storage – Deadly Dangers
Every year farmers die or narrowly escape death in grain storage bins, and more cases of deaths/entrapments are being reported at commercial grain elevators....
Nitrogen-Rich Strip Optimizes Fertilizer Application
Our typical nitrogen (N) recommendation for wheat is 2 pounds N per expected bushel of grain....
What Size Fits “Best”
With high input costs, cattle producers continually refine and evaluate how resources are being allocated....
Corn Plantings Fall Further Behind, Risk a Short Corn Crop in 2009
Excessive moisture in the Eastern Corn Belt continues to hamper corn plantings....
CME Report: Corn Planting Progress
As panic over the H1N1 influenza subsides, the market is turning its focus to other factors and, primary among them, is the outlook for the US corn and soybean crops this summer and fall...
Crop planting projections
USDA's crop-planting intentions report for 2009 indicates farmers plan to plant 76 million acres of soybeans compared to 75.5 million in 2008. This would...
CME predicts prospective plantings of corn and soybeans
According to a Dow Jones survey, analysts on average expect that US farmers will plant 84.5 million acres with corn this spring, down about 1.5 million acres from a year ago. ...
Ethanol Uptick And Corn Use Examined
What would happen if recent proposals to increase the ethanol blend limit to 12.5% or 15%...
Understanding Feed Analysis
Feed costs represent the largest annual operating cost for most commercial cow-calf enterprises....
Reducing Cattle Intensity to Manage Feed Areas
Winter cattle feeding areas are a recipe for mud....
Distillers Grains Exports Nearly Double In 2008
According to USDA, U.S. distillers grains exports nearly doubled last year from 2.36 million metric tons in 2007 to 4.51 million metric tons in 2008...
Soy Gains 2% Price Increase in Argentine Markets
The news of the drought in Argentina and the possible affect on the soy harvest, saw the price of soy increase 2% in the United States on Thursday....
Figuring out the heyday of hay
On our family farm in northeast Nebraska, we bale crop residues and forages to sell or use on the farm....
Rain at last in Argentina
Rain has brought some relief to the drought that is being experienced in Argentina, where it has been the hottest and driest summer in 55 years. ...
Twine Ain't Feed
During most years when winter comes, so does snow....
US Feed Outlook
The 2008/09 corn use forecast is lowered this month as financial and macroeconomic developments are continuing to weaken corn demand....
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
