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Farmer Panel: Baleage – How It Works On My Farm, Todd Clark, Tom Wright, Tom Greathouse
Farmer Panel: Baleage – How It Works On My Farm, Todd Clark, Tom Wright, Tom Greathouse
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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Evolution Of Mechanization And Transport In My Hay Operation, Ron Tombaugh
Evolution Of Mechanization And Transport In My Hay Operation, Ron Tombaugh
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
Good morning! My name is Ron Tombaugh. I was born and raised on a dairy farm near Streator, IL. Streator is about 100 miles southwest of Chicago. Our farm was in the northwest corner of Livingston county, one of the largest counties in IL. To give you an idea of the crops grown there, Livingston County along with 4 surrounding counties produce more corn than the neighboring state of Missouri! Dairy farms were not real common in our area then, and are almost non-existent in the area now.
Update On Hay Making Equipment And Technology, Joshua J. Jackson
Update On Hay Making Equipment And Technology, Joshua J. Jackson
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
Precision agriculture has focused on optimizing efficiency. For crop production, yields can be obtained from the combine and integrated with soil nutrient data to characterize the response to changes in management strategies (spraying, harvesting, nutrient application, irrigation, etc). Currently the highest resolution for yield, for the majority of farms raising alfalfa in Kentucky, is based upon the field level of data. Specifically, most farmers could specify the bales per field. From this and a dry matter (DM) analysis, we can derive the following: bales per acre, tons per acre, total tons of DM, and nutrients removed. Soil characteristics can be …