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Former Farm Kid Develops Hay Exchange Web
Site
While helping his father list hay for sale on existing
Web sites, Kevin Carmichael, Lansdale, PA, saw an opportunity to help
other hay producers more easily market products. With a background in
information technology, Web application, architecture and design, he
created and launched AgriHayExchange.com. "I understand the stress
farmers are going through, as I grew up on a 1,200-acre dairy farm in
Michigan," he states. "For the past seven years, I have been helping my
father list hay he has for sale. It became very frustrating using some
of the other sites out there."
Carmichael's site helps hay buyers and sellers connect, he says. Users
can easily update their own accounts, preferences, subscriptions and
listings. "They don't have to wait for me to post listings, as most of
the site drives itself," he explains. The subscription-based site uses
varying levels of membership to accommodate different levels of need and
allows buyers or sellers to create listings. To see listings, visitors
need to register and will get a free 30-day trial to the Basic Listing
Service. That service allows users to post up to three listings for 30
days -- to get a taste of what an actual subscription would get
them.
Carmichael says the site makes money via advertising and through
subscriptions. "Most of the features on the site are free," he explains.
"You only need a subscription if you want to actually post listings to
the site. In the future, I will also incorporate other features into the
paid subscriptions. Anything that requires storage and more bandwidth,
such as email, images, videos, etc., would need to be a part of a paid
subscription."
He continues to add new features to the site every month. Visit the site
at www.agrihayexchange.com,
or email info@agrihayexchange.com.
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Space-Age Technology Evaluates Forages In The
Field
Farmers and ranchers may eventually get Web-based
information on the quality and quantity of forage plants in their
fields, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and
University of North Dakota (UND) study laying that groundwork. Ranchers
could use the information to determine stocking rates and how much
carbon is stored in their forage plants.
Rebecca Phillips, plant physiologist at the ARS Northern Great Plains
Research Laboratory, Mandan, and Ofer Beeri, assistant professor of
space studies at UND, Grand Forks, have developed a way to measure, over
many acres, rangeland forage plant yields in pounds per acre and their
quality in percent protein. They're using commercial HyMap hyperspectral
imagery taken by airplane. The scientists can measure quantity and
protein content of both live and dead plant material, which often can't
be distinguished by conventional remote sensing.
Read more about the study at www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2007/070926.htm.
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Canadian Has Hay For Sale
Barclay Lutz, owner of Lutz Hay in the Lethbridge area
of Alberta, Canada, has hay for sale. "We are a family owned operation
and produce around 35,000 tons of forage products per year," he says. "I
run six trucks over most of western Canada and the northwestern U.S.,
including Oregon and Idaho."
Lutz farms around 3,700 acres of alfalfa, timothy and orchardgrass,
irrigating 2,500 of those acres.
Contact Lutz Hay at 403-330-5914.
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Oklahoma Hay And Grass Available
Jim Johnson, Ardmore, OK, ag specialist with the Noble
Foundation, offers Southeastern growers his sympathy and some help in
finding hay.
"At the Noble Foundation, we have a hay listing service www.noble.org/WebApps/WebListings/HayandPasture/Hay/haySearch.aspx
that currently has 87 listings, 12 of which are within 300 miles of
Memphis, TN. We have been blessed with rain and lots of grass and hay
this year, and maybe you could let folks know about these listings," he
wrote to eHay Weekly. "I realize freight gets expensive but it
may help some folks."
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Cellulosic Ethanol Coming To Kansas
The first industrial-sized cellulosic ethanol
production plant in the U.S. will be built in Hugoton, KS, by Abengoa
Bioenergy. The $400 million facility will include a 30-million-gallon
cellolosic ethanol plant plus an 85-million-gallon traditional ethanol
plant. Cellulosic ethanol will be made from 700 tons per day of corn
stover, wheat straw, switchgrass and other feedstocks.
The project will be partially funded by a $76 million grant from the
Department of Energy (DOE). In February, DOE awarded up to $385 million
in grants to six companies, including Abengoa, to help build the first
cellulosic ethanol plants. The other companies plan to build plants in
Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho and California.
Headquartered in Spain, Abengoa Bioenergy has its North American
division in Chesterfield, MO, a St. Louis suburb.
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Florida
Because of short hay supplies, many Florida dairy
producers haven't bought the feed supplies they normally would this time
of year, says Ron Bradtmueller, general sales manager for Central States
Enterprises, Lake City. "Local hay will be tight and roughage will be a
bit short in the Southeast," he reports. "We lost our first cutting in
Florida this year because it was too dry. Many people fed hay until
June." Hay producers with irrigation have been on schedule to get four
cuttings, while non-irrigated fields generally only produced two
cuttings. "Some people were trying to hoard hay, so hay had to be
rationed," he says.
Central States Enterprises produces alfalfa cubes and pellets.
Bradtmueller buys hay from across the U.S., but has concentrated mostly
in Idaho, Michigan and New Mexico this year. The business services more
than 200 feed stores in the Southeast. It also has a transload bulk
operation for bulk grains going to the dairy and poultry feed industries
in Florida.
Contact Bradtmueller at 386-755-7443.
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Ohio
Hay yields were low in parts of Ohio much of the
growing season, reports John D. Russell, owner of J.D. Russell Hay &
Straw, Pemberville. "Hay supplies are very short and there just isn't
very much hay available. Prices have gone up but customers seem to
understand." Russell's area in northwestern Ohio was dry up until it got
10" of rain six weeks ago, which has helped make third and fourth
cuttings the best yielding of the year. "We have been getting more from
our third and fourth cuttings than we did out of the first and second
cuttings combined," he says.
Russell grows an alfalfa-orchardgrass mix and wheat straw for the horse
market in the eastern U.S. and Florida. He also brokers hay from his
area, selling around 160,000 small square bales of wheat straw and
40,000 small squares of hay each year. He finds customers via word of
mouth and is not sure he will have enough hay to meet this year's high
demand.
Contact Russell at 419-833-9411.
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Calendar
Oct. 6 -- Oklahoma State University Horse Owner's
Symposium, McElroy Hall Auditorium, Stillwater, OK. Visit www.cvm.okstate.edu/conference/HorseSymposium/Default.asp.
Oct. 10 -- Peaceful Coexistence: Creating a Strategy for Harmony
Among GM, Organic and Conventional Alfalfa Producers, Radisson
Hotel, Stapleton Plaza, Denver, CO. Sponsored by the National Alfalfa
and Forage Alliance (NAFA). Contact NAFA at 651-484-3888 or nafa@comcast.net.
Oct. 16-18 -- Southeastern Hay Contest at the SunBelt Ag Expo,
Moultrie, GA. Refer to www.georgiaforages.com for
rules and entry forms or call Dennis Hancock at 706-542-1529.
Oct. 27 -- Grassfed Beef Workshop, Albany, NY. Registration is
$99. For more info or to register, contact Allison White at 800-477-7579
or allison@bakewellrepro.com.
Oct. 30 -- Kentucky Grazing Conference, WKU Expo Center, Bowling
Green. Learn more at www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage.
Nov. 7-8 -- Beef Quality Summit, Holiday Inn Centre, Omaha, NE.
Visit beefconference.com/.
Dec. 9-11 -- 28th International Irrigation Show, Convention
Center, San Diego, CA. Classes and exams will be held Dec. 6-11. Contact
Beth Casteel, Irrigation Association, 6540 Arlington Blvd., Falls
Church, VA 22042 or call 703-536-7080, ext. 11. Visit www.irrigation.org.
Dec. 13 -- Alabama Forage Conference, Troy. Contact Don Ball at
334-844-5491 or Eddie Jolley at 334-887-4564.
Dec. 18-19 -- 2007 California Alfalfa & Forage Symposium, Portola
Plaza Hotel, Monterey. Contact Dan Putnam, 530-752-8982 or dhputnam@ucdavis.edu.
Jan. 7-8 -- Heart of America and Mid-Missouri Grazing Conference,
Holiday Inn Select, Columbia, MO. For more information, visit www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage/.
Jan. 11 -- Forages at KCA, Lexington Convention Center,
Lexington, KY. For more information, visit www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage/.
Jan. 16-17 -- Washington State Hay Growers Association Conference and
Trade Show, Three Rivers Convention Center, Kennewick. Call
509-585-5460 or visit www.wa-hay.org/.
Jan. 17-18 -- Southwest Hay and Forage Conference, Ruidoso
Convention Center, Ruidoso, NM. Contact Gina Sterrett at 505-626-5677 or
Justin Boswell at 505-840-9908. Visit www.nmhay.com.
Jan. 27-Feb. 1 -- Joint Society for Range Management and American
Forage and Grassland Council Conference, Louisville, KY. Visit www.rangelands.org/events.shtml.
Feb. 4-6 -- 2008 National Alfalfa Symposium and Mid-America Alfalfa
Expo, Kearney, NE, sponsored by Hay & Forage Grower and the
Nebraska Alfalfa Marketing Association. Visit www.hayandforage.com for
details.
Feb. 21 -- Kentucky Alfalfa Conference, Cave City, KY. Contact
Garry Lacefield for more information at 270-365-7541, ext. 202. Learn
more online at www.uky.edu/Ag/Forage/.
Feb. 26-27 -- Idaho Hay and Forage Conference, Burley Inn,
Burley, ID. Learn more at www.idahohay.com/, or call Glenn
Shewmaker at 208-736-3608.
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World Dairy Expo Starts Today
Forage and feeding challenges as well as other
educational seminars are being presented during the World Dairy Expo in
Madison, WI, Oct. 2-6 at the Alliant Energy Center.
The international trade and cattle show is being held from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
each day. More than 1,540 exhibit booths showcase dairy industry
technology. Hay producers from the U.S. and Canada exhibit and market
their hay products at the show. The World's Forage Analysis Superbowl
contest entries will be featured in the Arena Building and winners will
be announced at an Oct. 3 luncheon.
The Dairy Forage Tool Box series of seminars are being held near the
World's Forage Analysis Superbowl contest area on the Arena stage. Come
visit with forage experts from the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kansas State University. Hay &
Forage Grower's booth is nearby.
Learn more about World Dairy Expo online at www.worlddairyexpo.com/gen.home.cfm.
For details on the forage seminars, click on: hayandforage.com/mag/farming_world_dairy_expo/.
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