hay bales in a field

Manufacturers say new haying equipment will boost productivity

Updated models introduced last summer should make putting up 
quality hay a little easier and more efficient this year

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last summer, marketing reps from all the major farm equipment brands invited members of the farm media to events in the U.S. to see — and in some cases try — newly introduced equipment, including hay tools and tractors. Much of the focus of last year’s new machine introductions were designed to appeal to livestock […] Read more

Dr. Lori Warren

In one end and out the other — feeding your horse without hurting your land

Horse owners can reduce their environmental impact — and save a bit of money — 
by adopting some easy feeding strategies for their horses

Reading Time: 3 minutes Some horse owners may pooh-pooh environmentally friendly feeding practices, but the risk that “road apples” pose to ground- and surface water is real, said an equine researcher from the University of Florida. “You know that what you feed in the one end will eventually come out in the back end,” Lori Warren said at the […] Read more