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Soil testing is a necessity to reap the benefits of growing alfalfa for hay.
Mississippi cattle producers can learn ways to improve their pastures at upcoming events taking place around the state this spring.
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.
Tired of looking out across your pastures and hay fields and seeing that “sea of yellow” every spring?
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.
Late March or early April is the time to plant spring forage cocktails for beef cattle grazing.
Paying attention to detail is something all producers can do to improve their forage quality.
The University of Wisconsin-Extension Team Forage recently updated their web site.
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.
Before you can accurately apply the right amount of herbicide to a field, you have to know how much volume the sprayer is applying to each acre.
The University of Wisconsin Extension will be holding a Managed /Intensive Grazing workshop on March 29 at the Jensen Community Center in Amherst, Wis.
A spring grazing workshop has been slated on April 8, in Dodgeville, 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.
What grass I should plant for a pasture?
What do you think of with the phrase “forage rye”? What about ryegrass?
There is much to be said for considering planting some acreage this spring in summer annuals.
At this point in March one has to hope that spring really is just around the corner. One task that is well suited to the transition time between winter and spring is frost seeding
Improved management adapted to changing rangeland conditions will be a key to surviving three back-to-back years of drought.
Managing cheatgrass requires an integrated approach with a focus on breaking the seed cycle and maintaining or improving the vigor of desirable plant species.
The quality of any forage depends primarily on the stage of growth when harvested.
Feed costs for over-wintering a beef cow are a major expense in beef cow /calf operations. Some decisions have already been made that will affect the outcome of both your costs and success at this point.
Scorched pastures offered little substance for O.D. Cope’s 1,000-head cowherd in summer 2012. Desperate for forage in August, the Aurora, Mo., cattleman says he took a cue from area dairy producers.
Winter feed represents one of the largest costs for a livestock production enterprise.
Why is it that nearly every article on beef cow nutrition in the winter seems to focus on body condition?
Winter seeding clover over grass pastures works best in February. Frozen fields are ideal and a snow cover makes seeding easier.
Gabe Brown, North Dakota holistic multi-species cover crop grazing rancher coming will speak at ANR Week.
Top producers strive to continue to improve their operations. Here are 10 tips to help you do just that.
Drier weather in the last month has led to slow growth of forages in parts of the Midwest, meaning livestock producers need to double check their forage supplies for the rest of the season now.
Armyworms, which can strip pastures and hayfields bare as they march across the landscape, are showing up Missouri, near Joplin and eastward to Hermann and Montgomery City, says Wayne Bailey, MU entomologist.