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Aggressively monitor corn plant dry matter so you don’t miss silage harvest window.

The coldest April since 1907 set back forage for Missouri's beef cow herds. Now, warm weather with rain creates forage for grazing and haying.

With the hot, humid and rainy return of summer, livestock producers can expect forage leaf and root diseases outbreaks in pastures. 

Plan carefully for successfully producing and utilizing emergency summer annual forages.

Grazing summer annual grasses can be a great addition to an operation when annuals are chosen correctly and grazing plans are used.

Planting summer annual forage crops could be an option where moisture is adequate for emergence or rain still may come.

Prussic acid is found when susceptible plants are under drought conditions or after a light frost.

There are a lot of forages that make great feed for cattle, summer annuals and native prairie grasses are just a few. 

There will be no cattle inventory reports released by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service this summer due to budget cuts.

There will be no cattle inventory reports released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) this summer due to budget cuts.

A drought during the summer will always be a threat.

As temperatures begin to creep up and spring starts to arrive, it is time to start thinking about the coming hay season.

Typically arriving during planting season while tractors race to the fields, it is easy to put scouting for weevil damage on the back burner.

A winter cold snap arrives. Cow's blood flow slows. Cows start limping. It's time to check herds for fescue foot.

Method of storage throughout the rest of the summer and into the fall and winter is important to maintain forage quality, as well as minimize waste and simultaneously cost of production.

Although water is the cheapest nutrient we may purchase or provide, it is the one we provide the most of on a per pound basis.

We are now two years into herd expansion and that leads to questions of how much more herd expansion is ahead and, to a lesser degree, questions about how fast remaining herd expansion will occur. Beginning with a Janu

Livestock producers are urged to routinely monitor ponds and other watering sources during the hot summer months to guard against the formation of blue-green algae.

Fields with extensive damage may need to be destroyed, rotated out, and replanted with and annual forage.

The 2018 extended drought in southwest Missouri has left pastures and hayfields with few forages left at the end of summer according to Tim Schnakenberg, field specialist in agronomy, University of Missouri Extension.