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    Purchasing Hay Equipment: Forage Mowers

    Jul 11, 2025

    The first step in the hay-making process is mowing the forage crop at the appropriate stage of maturity to best optimize hay yield and forage quality. Mowing and conditioning methods can influence drying time, quality, yield, and regrowth of the forage. Types of Forage Mowers Mowers can generally be broken down into two basic components:
  2. View of corn looking up at the stalks into a blue sky.

    Corn Performance Improved by Long-term Diversified Crop Rotations and No-tillage in Ohio from 1962 to 2024

    Jul 10, 2025

    Although the interest in conservation agriculture is growing among farmers, practices like no-tillage and more diverse crop rotations—those that go beyond corn, soybean, and wheat—are still not widely adopted in the United States. Today, 82%– 94% of the cropland is managed with crop rotations, but most are just two-year corn-soybean systems, and only about one-third of U.S. acres are under no-tillage practices (Claassen et al., 2018).
  3. Rows of soybean growing in a field.

    Soybean Yield Response to Long-term No-tillage Across Contrasting Ohio Soils

    Jul 10, 2025

    Since 1962, researchers at The Ohio State University have studied how no-tillage affects soil health and crop yields through the Triplett-Van Doren no-tillage and crop rotation experiment (soilfertility.osu.edu/research/long-term-tillage-plots). Building on over six decades of data (1962–2024), de Camargo Santos et al.
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