What's Your Business Worth?
If you plan to sell your custom harvesting business, putting a value on it might be tricky. Aside from their equipment, which many custom harvesters lease,...
Bag The Best Silage
The difference between winners and losers among those who bag silage usually boils down to a single concept: Management. Do things right and the quality...
Bagging More Business
Some southern Idaho custom choppers are done for the year after the first alfalfa cutting. But John Gomez keeps busy from late April through October....
Crimp The Crop Correctly
The quality of a hay crop is never better than when it's standing in the field, points out Randal Taylor. It's goes downhill from that point. Mechanical...
Custom Rates Rise
If you're raising your custom harvesting rates this year and higher fuel prices are the main reason, you're not alone. Forty-two percent of custom harvesters...
Diesel Dilemma
When diesel fuel prices in California jumped from 75/gallon to more than $1.80 for on-farm use last fall, the increase hit everyone hard. But perhaps...
Diesel Prices Will Stay High
Diesel fuel prices have gone down some over the last six months. But they're still high and are likely to remain that way. That's according to Dave Costello,...
Fracturing Stress
The pickup on your baler broke for the third time this week. Heavy rains are predicted and you've got hundreds of acres of hay to harvest. The balance...
Get Your Hay Preservative License
Custom hay balers who apply preservatives containing propionic acid will soon have to be licensed as commercial pesticide applicators. But it looks like...
Joining Forces
Custom farm work is big business, and those who do it have many of the same concerns as any other group of professionals. That's why Carey Vanderloop,...
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