The author is an extension ruminant nutrition specialist at North Carolina State University.

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Dec. 29 2025 In recent years, regenerative agriculture has become a popular topic in our industry. The idea is to improve your production system using the principles of soil health, which include reducing soil disturbance,...
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Jan. 29 2025 Tall fescue has become entrenched across the middle part of the eastern U.S., creating a region called the Tall Fescue Belt
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Jan. 24 2024 Many older perennial pastures could benefit from renovation. While we think of these as “permanent pastures,” we must realize perennial pastures evolve away from what was originally planted...
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Jan. 1 2023 Interest in controlled grazing strategies have grown in recent years. This has largely been due to higher input costs. The promise of growing more grass with fewer inputs is intriguing, and some would
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Dec. 31 2021 There is a lot of discussion these days about building soil health using improved grazing strategies. The currently popular approach is being called “regenerative grazing,”
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Jan. 19 2021 Grazing management is getting more attention these days, but the vast majority of cow-calf producers still use continuous or lax rotational grazing
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Jan. 13 2020 Healthy pastures are the key to efficiently feeding beef cattle in the humid regions of the United States
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Jan. 7 2019 The most widely planted tall fescue variety today is Kentucky 31 (KY-31), which was released in 1943 by E.N. Fergus
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March 15 2018 Adaptive grazing is a term describing a management approach that includes many practices such as frequent rotation of cattle and stockpiling for winter grazing
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Nov. 27 2017 In recent years, there has been a broader choice in finished beef available to consumers. The supply of “grass-fed beef” has risen, and it always raises some controversy within the industry
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March 31 2017 During spring, the growth of cool-season grasses can be explosive and can easily get ahead of a grazier, resulting in a lot of seedhead biomass with low nutritive value
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Jan. 26 2017 Amazing Grazing” is our education program that focuses on improving the understanding of pasture ecology and the adoption of adaptive grazing management