Colorado River water fills the furrows of a farm field in Blythe, Calif., where growers have been leaving some fields dry in exchange for cash payments to help conserve water. (Luis Sinco / Los ...
Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.
Those just growing hay saw an average of a $221 increase in income per acre on the treatment fields; those who also had a herd of cows to manage in addition to growing hay lost an average of $350 of ...
Cecilia Partsch and her husband, John Priselac, raise 23 beef cattle and grow hay on 35 acres on their Partsch Family Farm, designated as a Century Farm. Mirror photo by Walt Frank JOHNSTOWN — Cecilia ...
If you didn’t make hay, what could you do instead? Carson Roberts, Missouri extension state forage specialist, says the consensus in the beef industry is making your own hay is the cheapest way to ...
Growing hay in Galveston County is nothing to sneeze at. The money to be made from raising high-quality hay as feed for livestock, particularly horses, and the tax advantages of using land for ...
With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...
The results of a recent economic study of Grand County irrigators show that certain water conservation programs may be worth it for irrigators who grow hay but not for those who grow cows. In 2020, a ...
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