All Aboard Fall Harvest talks with Matt Forge of Forge Harvesting on the biggest challenges he faced harvesting with this ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

DECORAH, Iowa --- Silage choppers have been chewing up and spitting out corn for about a month in Northeast Iowa with mixed results. Government estimates show corn yields for grain will be drastically ...

Well, things on the farm haven’t slowed down a bit since I last wrote. Silage chopping continues at a breakneck pace. The chopper hardly has time to cool down at night before my husband, Robb, is ...

To most livestock farmers 2022 is a year to remember. This is because the drought caught many unaware before they could stock up on enough quality feed for their animals to push them through. Many ...

In September the Earth rounds an elongated curve in space and the weather begins its languorous glide into the long slog of winter. September suffers from multiple personality disorder, with summery ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

Mychal Wilmes shares his memories of a too-wet corn silage harvest in 1968, an early frost a few years later that reduced soybean yields, and a devastating blow when his father died one September.