This phrase baffled me when I was young. What did it really mean? My friend Kevin, who grew up on a farm and taught me about baling hay, told me that it has two meanings. The first, literally, was to ...

Missouri Extension State forage specialist Carson Roberts explains three factors that determine profitability when putting up hay.

U.S., world, and local economic tectonic plates shift and grind and slide across one another each in separate directions at varying speeds. Their movements and the consequences of those movements, and ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

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 ...

So let's get back to the description of making hay that I began in my column two weeks ago. I left off last time at the point where the hay is lying in the field after being mowed. When we mow, we lay ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A scorching drought in the southern Plains has caused hay prices to soar, benefiting farmers to the north but forcing many ranchers to make a difficult choice between paying high ...