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Registration for classes covering grazing, heifer development, pasture management and profitability available now to producers.
The partnership integrates Bunning manure spreaders into the Vermeer lineup serving North American hay, forage and livestock producers.
Cover crops offer producers cattle forage, decreased hay expense, improved soils, weed suppression and increased biodiversity.
A new program for Texas ranches can help secure technical and financial assistance to enhance rotational grazing practices.
Learn to manage grass for pasture health and profitability.
Burtrum Cattle LLC is counting on data to help them stay profitable as they steward their land and resources.
Producers should consider destocking, stockpiling supplies and reducing hay waste when extreme weather results in hay shortages.
Like any management practice, multiple factors impact the return on investment seen from both creep feeding and creep grazing.
Testing hay offers best information for quality.
Western ranchers face significant challenges after wildfires blister grazing lands.
Strategic grazing in annual grass-dominated rangelands reduced flame length and rate of spread — modifications that resulted in safer and more effective fire suppression.
Cattlemen throughout Oklahoma have reported cattle losses from cyanide/prussic acid toxicity, according to Oklahoma State University extension specialists.
A University of Kentucky research study will focus on how 5-HTP influences feed intake, vasoconstriction and gut health.
Cattle can adapt to virtual fencing similarly as they do to traditional fencing options.
How one multigenerational Montana ranch continues to ensure long-term viability.
Multiple moves per day is easier than folks think, according to this rancher
New proposed USDA rule will better protect farmers, ranchers, and other covered market participants by making clearer how prohibitions on unfair practices will be enforced under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
When moisture and soil nutrients are readily available, sorghum-sudangrass and pearl millet can produce up to 6 tons of forage per acre during the growing season.
USDA creates online decision tools to help livestock producers with determining qualified losses of animals and feed due to natural disasters.
Veterinarians at Kansas State University discuss summer grazing management techniques that can help improve animal performance and pasture productivity.
Cattlemen are looking to rebuild hay stockpiles this year and preserving hay quality will be of utmost importance this season to maximize tonnage, relative feed value (RFV) and storability.
Planning for a water source for rotational grazing programs helps improve pasture productivity and better distribution of nutrients back into the soil.
With the changing seasons, it may be time to test trace minerals in your herd as they play an important role in livestock health, bodily functions, fertility and reproductive health, and an animal’s overall wellbeing.
USDA reports 47% of pasture and range conditions are in good to excellent health, compared to just 34% a year ago. Pasture and range conditions rated poor and very poor is down 9% from last year.
Has the rain in parts of the country encouraged producers to start rebuilding the cow herd? How are the markets being affected by both dry and wet conditions right now?
Regenerative Agriculture Research Grant will advance pecan-focused research. One priority of the study will integrate livestock into cropping systems.
The following are key steps to guide producers who want to establish a new stand of native grass for grazing livestock.
“Ranching is a business within a lifestyle we enjoy.” That’s the message in the first installment of “The Business of Ranching” column, provided through a partnership between Drovers and the Noble Research Institute.
What’s your context? One of the 6 soil health principles we discuss in this week’s episode is knowing your context. What’s yours? What is your goal? What’s the reason you run cattle?
New six-part video series explores the cattle-grazing carbon cycle and the role of cattle in mitigating climate change.