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Survey And Adjourn, Kentucky Alfalfa And Stored Forages Conference
Survey And Adjourn, Kentucky Alfalfa And Stored Forages Conference
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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How Good Is Our Kentucky Haylage? A Summary Of 2017-18 Farm Results, Jimmy C. Henning, Jeff Lehmkuhler, Levi Berg, April Wilhoit, Corinne Belton, Tommy R. Yankey
How Good Is Our Kentucky Haylage? A Summary Of 2017-18 Farm Results, Jimmy C. Henning, Jeff Lehmkuhler, Levi Berg, April Wilhoit, Corinne Belton, Tommy R. Yankey
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
The ability to harvest moist forage as hay gives Kentucky producers many advantages, including timely harvest, higher forage quality, and less weathering loss over hay systems. The baleage system allows producers to utilize commonly available forage equipment (mowers, rakes, balers) rather than requiring choppers and silo structures or bags. Making high quality baleage requires timely access to bale wrappers.
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.
Barn Considerations For Cash Hay Operations, Morgan D. Hayes
Barn Considerations For Cash Hay Operations, Morgan D. Hayes
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
A well designed and built a barn can be invaluable for cash hay operation. Barn provide opportunity to reduce losses in dry matter and help maintain quality throughout the winter. There are numerous styles of barns that hay producers can purchase or build themselves. Wood frame structures, often with metal roofs and metal sides, are fairly common. You can also build barns with a steel structure with or without metal siding on the walls. Hoop barns are another common hay storage structure - particularly common with round bale storage. All, however, provide valuable storage for hay. There are four areas …
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 …
Hay Prices And Trends, David Knopf
Hay Prices And Trends, David Knopf
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
Kentucky’s large cattle and horse populations require considerable forage, and hay is one of the primary feed sources. The state ranks eighth nationally in the production of dry hay. This paper will look at this important sector of Kentucky’s agriculture production, specifically at the available sources of hay prices and recent price trends.
Fixed Costs In Hay Production, Greg S. Halich
Fixed Costs In Hay Production, Greg S. Halich
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
When hay producers estimate cost of production they often focus exclusively on “cash costs” or variable cost of production such as fuel, repairs, supplies, fertilizer, labor (if hired), and rent (if leased). They all too often ignore their “fixed costs” of production such as depreciation, interest, labor (if family), insurance, and certain taxes. Although there are legitimate reasons to concentrate on cash costs in the short-run, it is a mistake in the long-run, as these are real costs. Fixed costs for equipment are often ignored because they are generally paid in lump sums, and thus there is a disconnect between …
Forward Of Kentucky Alfalfa And Stored Forages Conference [2019], Rehanon Pampell, S. Ray Smith
Forward Of Kentucky Alfalfa And Stored Forages Conference [2019], Rehanon Pampell, S. Ray Smith
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
No abstract provided.