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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.
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.
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.
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.
Reducing winter hay feeding one among many topics.
A ranch’s profitability and sustainability are based on understanding grazing systems.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that beginning Sept. 1, farmers and ranchers can apply for financial assistance to help conserve working grasslands, rangeland and pastureland while maintaining the areas as livestock grazing lands.
Monitoring your pastures for cogongrass is easy if you can spot the seedheads.
Perennial peanut can make a nice addition to your pastures.
This year has been a wet one and that has made growing quality forage a bit of a challenge.
Ergot (Claviceps purpurea) is an airborne fungus that affects grass seed heads.
What are endophytes and what impact could they have on my livestock?
This spring’s wicked storms are giving Arkansas ranchers two kinds of headaches: declining hay quality and increased concern for livestock health due debris and bacteria stirred by floodwater.
This was a good spring for annual forages like ryegrass.
It might sound strange, but with no apparent ignition source, hay bales can burst into flames and cause much damage to storage facilities or spark a raging wildfire.
Have you harvested your first cutting of alfalfa yet?
Southern farmers may never win the battle against imported fire ants, but aggressive tactics can slow the pests’ invasion, reduce damage and prevent further spread across the United States.
How about cutting your grass hay to match grass nutrient content with nutritional needs of your livestock?