Brad Fassett was selling hay for $4.50 a bale when he started ranching full-time in 1998. Today, he sells a 65-pound bale for $13.50. While it might look like his profits are soaring, Fassett and many ...

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

During the cold winter when pastures contain scant forage, hay is the typical diet for cattle, horses, sheep and goats. Next to pasture, good quality hay is the ideal feed. However, there are ...

In what could be described as a doughy week for many commodities, lentils are offering some positive signs for growers. Lentil prices for all cultivars are on the rise as buyers out number sellers.

ELLENSBURG — 2021 was a trying season for timothy hay growers in the Kittitas Valley, as a slew of complications and curveballs were thrown their way. Record-breaking heat, staggering drought ...

Grow potatoes in hay to keep them from rotting before harvest time I live in Texas where most of our soil is a heavy black gumbo, but I’ve learned a method of growing potatoes in hay so they don’t rot ...

But the reward — and the premium price tag attached — is well worth the gamble for fifth-generation farmer Darren Trewick, from Elmore in northern Victoria. He runs a 2300ha business that includes ...

Paul Mwangi, a livestock farmer from Tigithi area in Laikipia County. Livestock farmers have taken over hay farming which has helped them raise alternative income as well as offer all year round ...

Farms that were bought out and removed in the 1990s get much of the blame for the decades of pollution that killed giant Lake Apopka. Yet now some government and business officials say a return to ...

The mayor of Hay River, N.W.T., says the number of people looking for emergency shelter after being displaced by an apartment building fire last week is rising. "It's only growing day by day," said ...