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Forage & Grains

Tracing Organic Kelp
Added October, 2010.Farmers Helping Farmers – Across the Waters: Tracing organic kelp back to an island farm harvester. MORE >

On Farm Fuel Production
Added September 6, 2010. Current field-based research is indicating that local farmers have a significant opportunity to produce more of their own liquid fuel, livestock feed, and other high value co-products through oilseed crop production in a crop rotation that is compatible with forage production. MORE >

Nebraska dairyman applies raw milk to pastures and watches the grass grow
Added July 2010. MORE >

Head Blight Alert!
Added December 3, 2009. High levels of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB or scab) infection have been reported throughout New England. Learn more >

What’s the Value of High Quality Forage?
Heather Darby, Agronomist, Dennis Kauppila, Economist, University of Vermont Extension
Added May 7, 2009. MORE >

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?” Learn more >

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.

Maximizing Milk On Homegrown Forages And Grains
Added May 15, 2008. Learn more >

Why Organic Dairy Farmers Should Learn To Love High Organic Grain Prices
Kevin Engelbert argues that, instead of condemning organic crop producers for finally getting parity price, we should all celebrate. Added April 4, 2008.

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