Producer Features

Are commodity prices changing your operation?
“Since we produce both crops and run a dairy, commodity prices are really starting to cut into our profits.

For dairyman Bill Hamilton of Stirlingshire, Scotland, growing corn silage is something to be proud of.

Anyone traveling through the Midwest will see a large assortment of silos: big, small; green, red, blue.

Q. How is the 2008 production season going for your operation?
“This is the first year we have ever had to replant our bottom areas three times.

Pierce, Nebraska alfalfa producer, Bernie Wrede, has been cultivating western alfalfa and serving as a supplier for dairy farms in the eastern and southern United States for 18 years.

It started in college nearly 40 years ago. Amy met Gary and the two became partners, not only as husband and wife, but as a team that has seen thousands of tons of hay produced, marketed and sold out of the Missouri River bottoms of South Dakota.