A dairy farmer in northern Michigan says silage harvest has wrapped up for the season. McBain’s Dale Dick tells Brownfield, “That yielded surprisingly well.” “The lighter sandier soils were definitely down, but overall averages were pretty decent yet,” he shares. Dick says the drought also impacted the size of pumpkins at that family farm’s U-Pick. […]
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