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You’re in your easy chair with your boots off, settling in for the night after a good supper, just starting to doze off when the neighbor calls, “Hey, your cows are out.”

Tillage in cover crops, high-speed planting, corn chopping and silage bale-wrapping were among the equipment demonstrations at the Canada Outdoor Farm Show in Woodstock, Ontario. Attendance grew to more than 42,000 at this year’s show, and equipment demonstrations were a popular attraction.

Check out this video highlighting tillage equipment, a high-speed planter, corn chopping and a silage bale wrapper.  FG

Watch this video to see haying equipment from a grease zerk’s view, and learn best practices to reduce leaf loss. 

The 2014 Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council summer tour began at Lake Raystown Resort, and wound through the Penn State Research Center, and through Happy Valley and Big Valley, Pennsylvania. Check out this slideshow from the event.  FG

Equipment from Joslin Farms in southern Idaho runs full tilt during corn silage harvest. This video takes you from field to silage drive-over pile on a beautiful autumn day during the 2013 harvest.  FG