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What a pasture should look like – whether a waving sea of grass or one with diverse vegetation – depends on the cattleman’s final goal and actions taken before rain falls, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service range specialist.

Warm-season grasses thrive when the temperature is around 90 degrees. 

Some tips to help save some money and grow more forage.

One of the best ways a livestock or dairy producer can improve available grass for cattle in pastures is to attend a Management Intensive Grazing (MiG) school. 

Photo-monitoring uses photographs to capture data about pastures.

Stockpiling forage is an alternative to feeding hay in the winter.

When it’s 100 degrees outside, winter may seem ages away, but planning for fall grazing and winter forage needs to start long before the mercury drops.

Water management and resource development will be among the topics discussed during the 2015 Beef and Forage Field Night Aug. 27, offered by experts with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.

How to increase the stocking capacity of pastures is a common problem faced by beef producers.

Grazing systems are dependent on location and available feed.

Sweet clover makes a good forage, but it can also be deadly.

Reducing winter hay feeding one among many topics.

The Academy for Ranch Management is offering a basic prescribed burning workshop Aug. 6-8 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Sonora, located on State Highway 55 between Sonora and Rocksprings.

Ergot (Claviceps purpurea) is an airborne fungus that affects grass seed heads.

A ranch’s profitability and sustainability are based on understanding grazing systems.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that beginning Sept. 1, farmers and ranchers can apply for financial assistance to help conserve working grasslands, rangeland and pastureland while maintaining the areas as livestock grazing lands.

Stockpiled bermudagrass can be grazed from October-December.

Perennial peanut can make a nice addition to your pastures.

This year has been a wet one and that has made growing quality forage a bit of a challenge.

What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘intensive grazing’?

Monitoring your pastures for cogongrass is easy if you can spot the seedheads.

Drought and heat have stressed Oregon's grass seed crops in multiple ways, which has farmers expecting a substantial decrease in yields now that harvest is underway.

Producers can learn how forages can enhance their operations by attending the Advanced Kentucky Grazing School Aug. 17 at the University of Kentucky Spindletop Research Farm in Lexington.

It might sound strange, but with no apparent ignition source, hay bales can burst into flames and cause much damage to storage facilities or spark a raging wildfire.

As this summer has shown, forage production from cool-season pasture and hay fields across the state can be dramatically affected by drought.

This was a good spring for annual forages like ryegrass.

How about cutting your grass hay to match grass nutrient content with nutritional needs of your livestock?

During the summer months grazing ruminants may show signs of distress with only short periods of grazing from mid-morning to late afternoon and spending other times in the shade.

Overseeding legumes in cool-season grasses is common, but doing it in warm season grasses is a whole other ball game.

What are endophytes and what impact could they have on my livestock?

Growing forage and baseball have a lot of similarities.

High quality forage is essential to beef cattle’s nutrition and beef producers’ bottom lines, said University of Georgia Extension forage specialist Dennis Hancock.

Have you harvested your first cutting of alfalfa yet?

Southern farmers may never win the battle against imported fire ants, but aggressive tactics can slow the pests’ invasion, reduce damage and prevent further spread across the United States.

The wet, cool spring has been a boon for clover.

This spring’s wicked storms are giving Arkansas ranchers two kinds of headaches: declining hay quality and increased concern for livestock health due debris and bacteria stirred by floodwater.

Hybrid pearl millet may be a suitable replacement for forage sorghums susceptible to sugarcane aphid, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension experts.

Proper soil sampling depth is critical for pasture soil testing.

Does anybody like musk thistles? If not, let’s do something about them.

In many areas of the nation, the pasture acres are in short supply. This, coupled with the fact that precipitation so far this growing season is below normal has cattle producers looking for additional feed resources.

The early warm temperatures we experienced this spring are favorable for insect activity and we have already seen army cutworms feeding in winter wheat and alfalfa fields.

First-cutting of hay from fescue fields fizzled after a promising start, say University of Missouri forage specialists.

"Now is the time to kill toxic tall fescue," says Craig Roberts, forage specialist.

Windrow or swath grazing annual forages in the spring and summer offers two potential advantages over direct grazing.

Grazing native range grasses too early can reduce forage production.

The region is lacking a lot of needed moisture going into the growing season. Due to these conditions we need to start looking at potential alternatives for forage production.

After hauling feed to cows all winter, there is no better thing than turning cows out to spring pastures. However, spring pastures are very lush and high in protein.

With the grazing season in almost full swing, University of Arkansas forage experts are reminding growers to consider which grazing methods will best help them get the most out of their forage stands and pastures.

The Southern Indiana Purdue Ag Center in Dubois will host the "Grazing 102" workshop June 9 and 10.

NDSU research shows early intensive grazing has reduced bluegrass growth.