Time seems to go by more quickly with each passing year. We are already halfway through winter, and it seems like just yesterday we were wrapping up last year’s harvest

Now that cold weather has arrived, it offers plenty of time to work in the farm shop.Winter is the time to go over equipment from top-to-bottom and make sure it is ready for spring

As harvest starts to wrap up, it’s time to get equipment cleaned and put away for winter. It’s also a time to make those dreaded phone calls to your certified public accountant (CPA)

WHAT a year 2021 is shaping up to be. Commodities were “limit up” for a week straight, then two weeks later, “limit down” each day

Large round bales are the preferred form of haymaking in many parts of the U.S., but they are difficult to load and process in mixer wagons unless the bales are first put through a grinder

Every year, there is a lot of lodged forage due to delayed harvests caused by heavy winds and rain associated with severe storms

Custom rate guides are popular documents in those states that continue to do the survey legwork; unfortunately, many do not. Each year, eHay Weekly offers readers a one-stop shop for accessing custom

As the snow flies around most of the country, it gives us a chance to look back at last season and decide what good and bad things happened

As much as farmers like to complain about the cost of hay equipment, few forage producers don’t enjoy looking at or reading about the equipment needed to get hay and silage into storage. I can tell

Haying season is all wrapped up for 2020, and judging by the comments I’ve seen on social media, it has still been either feast or famine for most of the country

For the most part, this summer has been a hot one, and the corn plants are soaking up those heat units! It has made for a nice crop year in the Southeast

KronExpo 2020 was live on July 16, 2020. This interactive, virtual webinar featured Krone equipment demonstrations and Q&A with Krone product experts

EVERYONE is finally in or near the full swing of the 2020 hay season. Some of us in the South are working on the second cutting of spring annuals, and the fertilizer trucks are running hard

The snow is still flying in some regions, and many hay producers are busy looking over their equipment and getting it ready to go

It’s once again time to document what farmers are actually paying or charging to help out their neighbors with machine field operations

As winter has fully set in for most of the country, indoor jobs that often center around machinery maintenance are popular and beneficial at this time

The introduction of disc mowers has allowed forages to be cut close to the ground — much closer than sickle bar mowers

Last season was a challenging one for hay production

In late 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received a grant from the USDA-NIFA Alfalfa and Forages Research Program to investigate the effects of wheel traffic on alfalfa regrowth, yield, and quality

The author is a forage extension agronomist with the University of Idaho. He recently attended his 50-year high school reunion and was inspired to reflect