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Forage & Grains

Molasses Makes Milk and Money!
An Alternative to High-priced Grain
Added July 29, 2008. It’s no secret to anybody in the dairy industry that grain prices are currently high, both organic and conventional. The multiple reasons for it include everything from floods to ethanol to the laws of supply and demand. The question everybody is asking is “what can we do?”
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Price & Availability of Corn & Forage:
How should producers prepare for the Fall?
Added July 5, 2008. So: What is affecting price and availability? In general, people are assuming that tonnage of grain will be short this year and much of the corn that is for sale is, in a sense, being set aside to wait and see. Other factors affecting price include speculators and Hedge Fund investors who are joining the commodity market as they exploit the uncertainty and short fall in supply against rising markets. Read Lisa McCrory’s article for a full analysis.

Diversifying Forages at the Stoltzfus Farm, Whitesville, NY: A Follow-Up
By Mary-Howell Martens
Last summer John and Tammy Stoltzfus began experimenting with mixtures of oats and forage turnips. Here are some of the results. Added March 8, 2008. Learn more >

• Japanese Millet and Camelina: New Crops on our Farm - by Brent Beidler – January 2008
  
  
• Thoughts on Winter Feeding - by Karen Hoffman – November 2007
  
  
• Forage Field Day at Stoltzfus Farm - by Lisa McCrory – November 2007
  
  
• Winter Grain Research in Maine - by Rick Kersbergen, Tim Griffin, Tom Molloy – August 2007
  
  
• A Farmers Breeding Club in Vemont – August 2007
  
  
• Managing Immature and Frosted Corn Silage by Dr Heather Darby – November 2006
  
  
• Emergency Forages After the Floods by Rick Kersbergen – February 2006
  
  
• Seeding Pastures and Fields This Spring by Rick Kersbergen – February 2006
  
  
• What’s the Value of High Quality Forage? By Nat Bacon – August 2005
  
  
• Frost Seeding: A Cheap Alternative to Improve Pastures by Dr Heather Darby – February 2005
  
  
• Fenugreek; an Ancient Forage with a New Twist by Dr Heather Darby – February 2004
  
  
• No-bloat Legume a Welcome Alternative for Northeast Pastures by Dr Heather Darby – November 2003