The wide usage of large package, round bales for feeding beef herds has made hay feeding more labor efficient, but may offer a number of management challenges to producers who wish to maintain superior hay quality and cattle performance.
Native grasses have relatively low fertility requirements, and recent increases in fertilizer costs have placed a premium on low input production options.
Forage producers need to get out into their fields to assess the health of plants as they begin to break dormancy after a particularly harsh winter, a Purdue Extension forage specialist says.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Denton County and the Denton County Extension Agriculture Committee will hold a cool-season forage field day from 5-8 p.m. at Rancho De La Roca, located on 2459 Blackjack Road West, Aubrey, Texas.
The University of Wisconsin Extension will be holding a Managed /Intensive Grazing workshop on March 29 at the Jensen Community Center in Amherst, Wis.
This is a time when most people are not thinking about pasture maintenance, but right now is when thistles are the most susceptible to control efforts.
