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While there are many positives to incorporating forage cover crops into existing forage systems, differences in production, nutritional value, and animal gain exist.
As single digit and below zero temperatures arrive, be happy if you received snow recently. Sure, snow created some problems, but snow is good – for alfalfa.
Mapping the long-term reaction of woody plants to brush-control techniques can help landowners prioritize management practices to maximize the effectiveness of costly brush reduction, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research study.
Grass tetany is a potentially deadly condition in cattle grazing on small grains or ryegrass.
Grassland soil microbe communities show seasonal responses, deserve more research.
It is common place now to see maturing broomsedge in our pasture and hayfields.
Prepare your land for winter grazing by closely grazing or mowing down the existing pasture in the fall, prior to planting.
There are many questions about using cover crops as a grazed or mechanically harvested forage.
Data to be used for farm bill loan deficiency program.
In New Mexico, as well as the entire country, raising forage is an important part of the agricultural industry.
Combinations of frost-damaged forages, resulting in the accumulation of prussic acid, and their ingestion, may prove fatal for livestock.
Frost seeding of pastures in late winter can be successful especially if the preparation is started in the fall.
The Annual Forage Insurance Plan is available for two different seven month growing seasons.
Fall armyworms are proving especially viscious for hay crops this year.
Late summer/early fall dry spell giving winter forage a slow start.
Frost causes important changes in forages so manage them carefully for safe feed.
Fall alfalfa often produces the best quality forage of the year.
The Texas Panhandle Forage Sorghum Silage Trials is the only forage trial nationwide used to update grain sorghum eligibility tables.
Selecting the right nitrogen source when fertilizing pastures and hayfields has always been important in nitrogen use efficiency.
Winter feed bills are one of the largest expenses of a livestock operation, but winter feed costs can be reduced with some action now.
The Feed Cost Cow-Q-Lator is used to make a comparison of the costs of feeding a representative beef cow.
Redcedar invasion into Nebraska’s grasslands is a very real issue that producers need to address.
Warm-season grasses thrive when the temperature is around 90 degrees.
What a pasture should look like – whether a waving sea of grass or one with diverse vegetation – depends on the cattleman’s final goal and actions taken before rain falls, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service range specialist.
Cogongrass is a hardy, fast-growing invasive weed that is spreading across the Southeast.
Water management and resource development will be among the topics discussed during the 2015 Beef and Forage Field Night Aug. 27, offered by experts with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.
Photo-monitoring uses photographs to capture data about pastures.
Stockpiling forage is an alternative to feeding hay in the winter.