The Best Tips for Restoring A Pasture

You need the right process—and the right equipment—to get your pastures in shape, especially if they’re new or neglected. Here’s how to do it.

The Top 6 Questions About Growing Hay, Answered

Experts offer their advice on how to make the best haying decisions for your farm and finances.

Above: An older stand of alfalfa begins to thin and is in need of being rotated out.

How Growers Can Produce Forage Full Time Without Row Crops

When alfalfa begins to thin and rotating to corn or beans isn’t an option, add grass to the mix.

Southeastern Hay Contest Winner: First-Place Forage

Georgia producer grows “off-the-charts” alfalfa.

Miscanthus Makes Profit On Marginal Acreage

This Missouri company harvests miscanthus for the pet food industry.

Browse the Summer 2018 Issue of BALE

Look inside the Summer 2018 issue of BALE magazine! If you’re interested in receiving BALE magazine, see your AGCO equipment dealer in the United States and Canada.

Pieter Vanderlaan stands in front of his Sunflower 9435 grain drill.

Due Diligence

Nothing less than careful attention to site prep, soil fertility and seed selection works for establishing alfalfa.

Growing

Making Hay in the Music City

Hay Time in Corn Country

First Time’s A Charm