“Summer annuals are a good way to add diversity and build pasture stands for the upcoming grazing season,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Summer ...

This time of year, when the sun is bearing down and our perennial pastures begin to show signs of fatigue, more and more cattle producers are looking for ways to maintain both forage quality and ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - In many areas of South Dakota, 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 ...

Warm-season annuals are excellent options to consider as a way to increase a farm or ranch’s forage production. These are a group of annual grasses that perform best during the warmest part of the ...

Grazing cover crops after grain is harvested in the same field can pay off even where the growing season is short, according ...

When grazing alfalfa in the fall, bloat remains a potential problem, especially during the first three to five days after alfalfa has been exposed to freezing temperatures. In general, the risk of ...

For those cattle producers interested in learning more about various summer annual crops for grazing, we've set up a pasture walk to introduce you to these new forages. These summer annuals, which ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Picking out cover crops is no run into the convenience store to grab the nearest sandwich when you're in the middle of field work. Each plant that acts as a cover crop has ...

Gary Bates, director of the University of Tennessee Beef and Forage Center, shares some good information with us about selecting grasses for next year: As this summer has shown, forage production from ...

COLLEGE STATION - A downturn in the bioenergy industry has led one Texas A&M AgriLife Researcher to reach to new heights in the forage biomass arena. Dr. Russ Jessup, an AgriLife Research perennial ...