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What are you waiting for? Novel endophyte fescue seed worth a look
Despite the fact that it is a bit more expensive to plant novel endophyte fescue seed, you can offset the cost of establishing novel endophyte fescue by increasing livestock efficiency.
Triple-crop sugar corn yields sugar, grain and biomass with less nitrogen
URBANA, Ill — By crossing maize plants adapted to the tropics with lines used as parents of popular Midwestern corn hybrids, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new type of plant with the potential to yield three crops and use less nitrogen. Sugar corn can be harvested for the grain, the sugar
Dairy Excel: Return to grazing for dairies of future?
Jim Skeeles discusses a presentation given by Tom Kriegl of the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability at the American Forage and Grassland Council Annual Meeting last month.
Tinkering with CRP could be costly
When Farm Journal’s late staff economist John Marten explained the-then new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the mid-1980s, he did so with a clever memory tool. “CRP isn’t complicated,” Marten once told a large crowd (which included me) back then, “if you remember the ‘Four Ws’: West, Wheat, Wet and Windy.” CRP will be called
Then and now: Down on the farm
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes there were plenty of things to do – both around the home, barn and fields – on the farms of old.
Black and white now in the black
National Holstein association ends 2003 with operational profit.
Weather puts corn to ultimate test
A growing season filled with environmental stresses – from a wet spring, to a dry summer, to severe insect infestations – may have an advantage: It puts corn hybrids to the test.
Check gutters and downspouts this fall
With fall right around the corner, it’s a great time to do a walk-around inspection of your home’s gutters and downspouts.
Learning bird songs and why they ‘sing’
Learning to identify birds by their voices is a great way to improve your confidence in your knowledge of nature.
Farming cockroaches? Little bugs could become big business
China’s cockroach industry is booming, but the country’s affinity for the insect is spreading worldwide.
