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The Financial Benefits of Going Grass-Fed with Sheep
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How to weather inflation of agricultural inputs. A common expectation is that grass-fed market lambs should fetch a premium price, a price that is higher than conventional grain-fed lamb. That is not always the case unless you are able to tap into a niche market. Sales barns or livestock markets do not pay a higher…
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Will Dry Weather Create Forage Shortages This Winter?
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Farmers can take action now to adequately prepare for the winter months. We have seen quite dry conditions in much of our region and much of the state this past spring and into early summer. There has been some recent rain. However, it has been sporadic in nature. Some locations have seen a fair amount…
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Hay You! Should I Make My Hay or Buy It?
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By Rich Taber, CCE Chenango As the haying season winds down across the northeast, I am left to ponder the eternal question; should I keep on trying to make hay for my livestock every year, or buy it? Well, “the devil is in the details”, as the old saying goes. First off, I am going…
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Quality of Winter Forage for Grass-fed Sheep
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Feeding hay in the winter is in many parts a reality in the Northeast. You will hear often these days that the best way to deal with hay in a grass-fed operation is to rid yourself of hay feeding and graze stockpiled forage instead. In my view it is true that extending the grazing season is a good and desirable goal…
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Making Hay When the Sun Seldom Shines
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How ironic this summer of 2015 has been! When I wrote my article “Making Hay While the Sun Shines” for the last edition of SFQ, it had been a fairly dry spring. It looked like the summer of 2015 would be short of rain. Not too long after that article was written, it began to…
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Switchel – A Time Tested Thirst Quenching Favorite
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My Dad used to tell about working on his aunt and uncle’s farm in the summer. Doing some rapid math, that may have been in the early 1930’s. He didn’t tell many farm stories but a brief one that stands out involved working during haying season. He emphasized the extremely hard work — the heat,…
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