Pasture-Forage
The South Dakota State University Extension wants to teach landowners ways to properly plan for and conduct a prescribed fire.
Native bluestem pasture in Kansas has fallen in price the last two years for many producers renting grass, but the rates are still significantly higher than six years ago.
While homes, structures and livestock can be lost, landowners who rely on grasslands, shrublands and forests as an enterprise are left trying to figure out how to recover the vegetation and habitat.
There are a few different options for portable fencing systems; the most typical are polywire or a polywire braid. According to our sources, it is best to always stick with a polywire braid since weaved material conducts electricity better, and it is more resilient to pressure.
Whether you’re looking for a permanent fencing solution or want something portable for your grazing system, there are many cost and management benefits to utilizing electric fence.
Student’s questions reflect consumer concerns over beef production systems. Question 6: In your experience, do you think a cow prefers consuming grass or corn?
Student’s questions reflect consumer concerns over beef production systems.
Student’s questions reflect consumer concerns over beef production systems.
Warm weather is coming and that means cattle producers grazing wheat in the Southern Plains have a decision to make: should they stay or should they go?
Whether you’re looking for a permanent fencing solution or want something portable for your grazing system, there are many cost and management benefits to utilizing electric fence.
The No. 1 failure in the installment of an electric fence system is not properly grounding the energizer. “If you want to get the most out of your charger, then you must install a grounding system—and install it right,” Steve Freeman says.
The Public Lands Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association applaud passage of the Grazing Improvement Act by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Federal officials have announced $20 million in aid for California farmers affected by the ongoing drought.
The basic concept of stockpiled forages is to utilize forage varieties with high digestibility such as Tifton 85 Bermudagrass or limpograss, that maintain their quality even when mature.
Cover crops don’t just improve the performance of crop fields; they also make excellent forage for cattle.
Because native grasses produce large amounts of forage and strong gains at a low cost, they can be a good tool for heifer development.
Hungry cattle help researchers discover drought-resistant wheat variety
Cattle will select the grain and best quality forage first when initially turned into a field.
Fall and winter grazing on warm-season grasses is the least detrimental time to graze these species.
Genetics play a role in how cattle will ultimately perform.
Integrating crop and livestock enterprises represents an incredible competitive advantage for farmers and ranchers.
Grazing calves on corn residue and providing supplemental distillers grains is a cost effective way to add value to weaned calves.
A bison ranch in the Dakotas that has been a source of frustration for other ranchers in the area failed to sell at auction over the weekend.
Rancher Bill Edwards is fighting an enemy that threatens to overrun his Flint Hills pastures, robbing his cattle of nutritious grasses and leaving the meadowlarks, box turtles, bobwhite quail and other wildlife in the same native prairies without suitable habitat.
Kansas cropland values are slipping, but pasture values up nearly 7 percent.
The vast majority of the 1.6 million acres — nearly 2,600 square miles — that burned in Oregon, Idaho and Washington this year are federally owned, data show, with large swaths of that public land used as rangeland for livestock grazing.
The ranch pasture is slowly being restored while a complex of researchers look into the sustainability of a small, grass-fed cattle operation that could be a trademark reservation product.
As massive wildfires blaze across the West this week, the need to address the increasing wildfire threat is even more apparent.
Should I convert some of my irrigated crop acres to grass?