date:Jan 31, 2013
ry it will open to emergency hay growing and cattle grazing a record 2.8 million acres of land in the Conservation Reserve Program. This move has come on the heels of a number of previous U.S.D.A. actions to open lands and increase available sources of grazing.
Despite the efforts, prices of a prominent ingredient in hay, alfalfa, continues to rise. In December 2012, alfalfa was priced at $217 a ton, a record, and up from $195 a ton in December 2011, said Bill Brooks, a dairy economist at Inter