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  • How Much Hay Do I Need for Winter?

    Rich Taber

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    In part 18 of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we discuss how a sharp pencil and a good calculator can go a long ways in figuring out how much your hay will cost you. As you read this in the autumn months, it might be prudent to go over…

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  • How I Built My Sheep Barn

    Ulf Kintzel 

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    And what I would do differently with 20/20 hindsight   When my family and I moved to the Finger Lakes area in Western New York about 18 years ago, I had opted for a piece of land without any buildings. Besides a house, a new barn needed to be built. Such structure was needed for…

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  • Hay Storage Considerations: Don’t Waste It!

    Nancy Glazier

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    Fall may be a good time to think about hay storage. In some parts of the Northeast haymaking has been tough due to the frequent rains. I have had some producers tell me they hadn’t finished making first cutting hay by the first week of August due to the weather. Make sure you put more…

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