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The best way to utilize cornstalks is to graze them.

After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops cattle farmers are using to stretch fall grazing.

The death of 24 cattle in Arizona is being investigated by multiple government agencies.

The main objective in developing replacement heifers is to have them reach puberty well before the first breeding season.

Over past two decades, ethanol production has increased, and in turn, the byproduct of this industry (distillers grains) has become more available.

Sheep and cows are able to coexist.

Cattle and hog margins are headed south as supplies build and packers run near capacity.

The person who originated the adage, “It beats a snowbank” may have been thinking about feeding corn stalk bales. However, like most forages there can be quite a bit of variability in nutritional value.

Prussic acid and nitrates affect cattle differently.

With the limited opportunities and short windows many have had to make hay so far this year, some hay may have been made at higher moisture levels than we would like