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How much of the nutrients cattle consume are recycled back to the pasture?

Soil testing is a necessity to reap the benefits of growing alfalfa for hay.

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.

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.

The drought has had lasting effects on farmers across the country—cattlemen in particular.

Even after storms dumped many inches of snow in February, water shortages and dirt-dry pastures across the Great Plains are shrinking herds.

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.

The 2013 hay season, with little sunshine and lots of rain, increases interest in making baleage, or silage in a bag, says Rob Kallenbach, University of Missouri Extension forage specialist.

Low available mineral nitrogen limits grass production more than low water on grassland pastures.

Know the nutrients and dangers that cornstalks contain.