The general goal is to cut alfalfa when the fresh-cut sample tests 20 to 30 RFV points above what the farmer wants to have when fed in the feed manger. According to Dale Hicks, agronomy and plant genetics, early planted corn seed will lay in the ground longer before emergence because of soil temperature. The following information is the mean maximum and minimum soil temperatures at the four-inch depth and average daily pan evaporation from selected University of Minnesota field research...

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Despite previous acceptance that Roundup Ready alfalfa posed no harm to humans and livestock, the court upheld its decision that the USDA did not adequately follow procedural requirements as detailed by the National Environmental Policy Act before deregulating Roundup Ready alfalfa. Despite previous acceptance that Roundup Ready alfalfa posed no harm to humans and livestock, the court upheld its decision that the USDA did not adequately follow procedural requirements as detailed by the...

But compost is not so much a feed as a soil conditioner; used as a soil amendment or as a top dressing, it feeds soil microbes that act as helpers to plants. Alfalfa meal and other goodies being processed for the steers drifted to those plants, and it turned out that the nutrients were good for them, too. They grew sturdier than the same plants elsewhere, and when the summer turned hot and dry the difference in their health and vigor became even more pronounced. Plants grown with compost...

The hog confinement planned about a mile west of Donahue, for instance, will have an educational component and be open for tours to school groups and visitors, said farmer John Maxwell, who will put up the structure in cooperation with pork producer Tom Dittmer of Eldridge. The hog confinement planned about a mile west of Donahue, for instance, will have an educational component and be open for tours to school groups and visitors, said farmer John Maxwell, who will put up the structure in...