Stored hay can be a livestock producer’s best insurance, says University of Missouri Extension plant science specialist Caleb O’Neal, who is also a cattle producer. It provides flexibility for ...
Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are back this summer, causing considerable damage to rangelands and forage in western states. The insects cause $318 million in crop losses to alfalfa annually, ...
Forage crops and pastures provide feed for grazing livestock. Quality forage is necessary to provide nutrients in rations to keep livestock healthy and productive. Purdue Extension created an ...
My mind was wandering the other day as I was enjoying one of our beautiful North Dakota summer days, and I started thinking about how we are in August. How many more of these nice warm days do we have ...
The Nebraska Extension, together with the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition, will host sessions on Integrating Cattle and ...
SALMON, Idaho — Grazing cover crops after grain is harvested in the same field can pay off even where the growing season is short, according to University of Idaho researchers. A UI Extension trial ...
If you ever have an opportunity to visit livestock production systems in other parts of the country, take it. It is amazing what you can learn, and you often find out that the grass is not greener on ...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials said a Saudi-owned company they targeted over its use of groundwater to grow forage crops is moving its farming operation out of a valley in the Southwestern state’s ...
Agriculture in high-elevation regions of the Colorado River Basin (CRB) primarily consists of integrated crop-livestock operations, mostly cow-calf operations. Livestock producers in this region use ...
Anderson Hay will be allowed to continue paying farmers for forage crops on an “interim basis” while their contracts are reviewed by a bankruptcy judge. The company recently filed for Chapter 11 ...
Episodes of extreme weather are adding new and recurring challenges to reseeding. In response, some farmers are opting to ...