MANAGEMENT

The Oregon Cover Crop and Forage Seed group presents this 10-minute video on profitable keys for a livestock forage program:

When does equipment pay for itself? Determining when a capital investment moves from breakeven to profitable is tricky.

Since the useful life of the equipment is longer than one year and is often financed for a period of years, it’s a question that every producer or service provider should ask. There is a certain peace of mind knowing that your investment actually does pay.

Some 30-odd years ago we delivered baled alfalfa hay to an export hay cuber in Clarkston, Washington.

The United States Forest Service (USFS) and National Park Service (NPS) enacted a requirement in the mid-1990s in many Western states that required all forage and straw possessed on these lands to be certified noxious weed-free.

About 12 years ago, Bill Norton joined an agricultural co-op in Nevada even though he didn’t live in the state.

The common lament among many agricultural producers is that they can do a great job of producing a product but aren’t that great at marketing it.