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Forage Market Insights: Putting a partial wrap on 2024

Here’s Progressive Forage’s look at fourth-quarter factors impacting hay markets.

December 19, 2024

Larger harvests are impacting dry hay markets in many regions as 2024 comes to a close. On-farm hay inventories, new seeding estimates and production summaries for all forage crops will provide a clearer picture in early January.

Are all bales harvested from a single hayfield created equal?

Improper samples contribute to the biggest error in the forage analysis process and result in over- or underfeeding nutrients and prove costly to the animal’s nutrition and health and to your pocketbook.

September 18, 2024

Michael Reuter

As the calendar has turned to autumn and the hay harvest season continues in full swing across the country, forage analysis labs expect to be hit by a tidal wave of samples from clients.

Crop price elasticity: What it is and why it matters

May 8, 2023

Pat Hatzenbuehler

Markets go up and markets go down, but elasticity in the markets can be quantified and used in crop marketing strategies.

Forage Market Insights: Positive signs for production

Here’s Progressive Forage’s monthly look at factors impacting hay markets for April-May 2023.

April 10, 2023

Dave Natzke

A slight increase in hay acreage and yield-boosting moisture conditions in some regions provide hope for increased forage production in 2023.

Forage Market Insights: Spring role reversals

Here’s Progressive Forage’s monthly look at factors impacting hay markets for March-April 2023.

March 13, 2023

Dave Natzke

Moisture conditions are improving, but hay exports and milk prices are weakening, with a likely impact on demand.

Forage Market Insights: 2023 cropping season coming into view

Here’s Progressive Forage’s monthly look at factors impacting hay markets for February 2023.

February 13, 2023

Dave Natzke

[Podcast] Will Ricks – A hay producer in Jefferson County

February 9, 2023

Idaho Hay and Forage Association President Will Ricks joins us today on the podcast. Will raises hay for Idaho livestock, as well as for the export markets. Hay has become Idaho’s #2 field crop in 2022, edging past wheat for the first time.