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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?
High quality forage is essential to beef cattle’s nutrition and beef producers’ bottom lines, said University of Georgia Extension forage specialist Dennis Hancock.
Growing forage and baseball have a lot of similarities.
Hybrid pearl millet may be a suitable replacement for forage sorghums susceptible to sugarcane aphid, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension experts.
During the summer months grazing ruminants may show signs of distress with only short periods of grazing from mid-morning to late afternoon and spending other times in the shade.
Proper soil sampling depth is critical for pasture soil testing.
The early warm temperatures we experienced this spring are favorable for insect activity and we have already seen army cutworms feeding in winter wheat and alfalfa fields.
Windrow Grazing Annual Forages in the Growing Season to Increase Harvest Efficiency and Productivity
Windrow or swath grazing annual forages in the spring and summer offers two potential advantages over direct grazing.
First-cutting of hay from fescue fields fizzled after a promising start, say University of Missouri forage specialists.
Does anybody like musk thistles? If not, let’s do something about them.
“Now is the time to kill toxic tall fescue,” says Craig Roberts, forage specialist.
After hauling feed to cows all winter, there is no better thing than turning cows out to spring pastures. However, spring pastures are very lush and high in protein.
With the grazing season in almost full swing, University of Arkansas forage experts are reminding growers to consider which grazing methods will best help them get the most out of their forage stands and pastures.
Northern Utah ranchers already dealing with low water supply are now facing a larger than normal infestation of a black grass bug that kills grass needed for cattle to graze.
New forage planting and harvesting equipment, plus demonstration plots, will be featured at the 29th annual O.D. Butler Forage Field Day scheduled May 15 at Circle X Land & Cattle Company Camp Cooley Ranch Division.