Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...

Colorado—In the Aug. 10 report, compared to last report, trade activity and demand has softened. Hay trades are slow as second cutting is well underway across the state. Areas that have received a lot ...

TOWNER, N.D. -- When I was in college, an animal nutrition professor always called alfalfa "the king of hay." Whatever you measured -- crude protein, relative feed value, taste, smell, bovine ...

In the dead calm of a summer night, even agriculture sleeps—but not David Hinman. Minutes past midnight, the Wheatland, Wyo., producer wakes up and checks humidity levels via weather apps, slips out ...

Although it seems like winter was only a few weeks ago and spring planting was just completed, it’s already time for the first hay harvest of the year. Wilma Trujillo, agronomist for the Colorado ...