Nutrition

Native warm-season grasses can yield more forage than traditional tall fescue, says Tim Schnakenberg, University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist.

While Mother Nature continues to deal farmers and ranchers winter weather, spring is on the way. Here are four products livestock farmers can consider as they wait for warmer temperatures to arrive. 

Late winter and early spring is the most challenging time of the year for the nutrition of the spring-calving beef cows.

Native warm season grasses conjure up good thoughts for some and reminders of bad experiences for others according to Tim Schnakenberg, field specialist in agronomy with University of Missouri Extension.

December 1 hay stocks declined nationally for the third year in a row to 79 million tons, the smallest December 1 figure since 2012.

Understanding of the cattle microbiome can provide tools for improving animal health and productivity.

Adding extra fertility after drought is boosting toxins like nitrates in hay.

Common sense and good observation often are your best decision aids when feeding moldy hay.

For creep feeding to be profitable, the costs of the added weight gain must be less than the value of that gain.

Winter feeding of forage to beef herds doesn’t rank high as a favored job for herd owners. But there’s a bright side to feeding fescue, whether in hay or grass. Fescue toxins are down.

Forage sorghum silage in the Texas High Plains is a viable option with sugarcane aphid control, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service study.

We asked, you answered. Here’s a look at livestock owners’ opinions about hemp and its role in U.S. agriculture.

As cannabis in the form of industrial hemp receives crop status in the 2018 farm bill and a growing number of states have legalized medical marijuana and industrial hemp production, who will meet the need?

Medical goldmine, pipe dream or somewhere between?

Here's what you need to know about hemp as a feed ingredient for cattle.

Will hemp lead to happier cows? It’s too early to say, says Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

If the pasture of stockpile is heavy, then it can often be grazed even under fairly wet conditions without too much long-term damage but, you will need to have a watchful eye.

Success grass-fed beef production is dependent on several factors. 

Hay produced on irrigated grass and subirrigated meadows can be a potential supplementation source throughout Nebraska.

More than 1,500 cattlemen and women attend informative and engaging sessions to improve their business skills at the 2019 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Tradeshow.