EVENT COVERAGE

Topics discussed at the recent beef and forage field day in Mt. Vernon, Missouri, included baleage basics; research on Kentucky 31 compared to Bar Optima Plus with different genotypes of cattle; and herbicides for weed and brush control.

About 46,000 people flocked to Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, Pennsylvania, Aug. 13-15, for Ag Progress Days, one of the largest outdoor agricultural expos in the Northeast.

More than 85 livestock producers from Arkansas and Texas listened intently to university research and recommendations about native warm season grasses and forage alternatives at the Arkansas Forage Management Conference in Hope.

More than 85 livestock producers from Arkansas and Texas listened intently to university research and recommendations about native warm-season grasses and forage alternatives at the Arkansas Forage Management Conference in Hope.

Hundreds of people flocked to the fields at Breezy Hill Dairy in Dallas, Wisconsin, July 9-11 to see the performance of forage equipment. This video captures the merging and chopping demonstrations that took place at Wisconsin's Farm Technology Days.

The first university student I visited with at the 36th Annual Small Grains and Forages Field Day at BYU – Idaho did not have an ag background but nonetheless had chosen agriculture as his profession.