The U.S. Drought Monitor is starting to light up again as several states show signs of struggling with inadequate soil moisture. As drought conditions develop across the northern tier of the U.S. and

Annual lespedeza is a warm-season legume that has been largely forgotten about in the past half-century

Teffgrass is like the utility player on the baseball roster of forage species. The fast-growing warm-season annual is a good candidate for emergency forage when grazing livestock are short on feed. It

Horses are classified as hindgut fermenters. The main site of digestion and absorption of dietary sugars, starches, fats, and protein is the small intestine

Grazing is an economical way to feed horses a well-balanced diet, provide animals voluntary exercise, and reduce behavioral and health issues

Bermudagrass is one of the primary perennial forages produced in the Southeast, covering approximately 3 million acres in Georgia alone

Reports of dry weather and drought conditions never seem to leave our newsfeed. Where one region receives much needed rainfall, another is slowly progressing from moderate to severe to extreme drought

I hear people talk about overgrazing in a lot of different settings

Sometimes an opportunity presents itself that is too good to pass up

When margins are tight and time is money, ranchers look for ways to cut costs and boost their bottom line

For much of the U.S., frost is within a page turn of the calendar. That means the prussic acid poisoning alarm for sorghum-related species will promptly be sounded. In the near future, however, there

It seems many people in the farming and ranching communities are still having a hard time coming to terms with the concept of climate change and what role human beings might play in this process

In the Midwest, over the last two decades, both June and September have shown a trend toward warmer average monthly temperatures

In my last column, I had discussed how to train your grazier’s eye to conduct ongoing pasture inventories

Will it head early? Will it head late?These two questions follow grass varieties around like a lost puppy. They get asked by grass breeders during development; they get asked by marketing departments

Do fresh, newly planted pastures provide better nutritional quality for grazing livestock than older pastures?

Drought is on farmers’ minds across Missouri and other states. Monthly precipitation has been below average 17 of the last 22 months in Columbia, Mo

One of the tools I have used to assist my grazing management decisions is the pasture inventory

In the northern United States, hayfields often consist of a single forage species like alfalfa, but single species pastures are somewhat rare

In the mixed hardwood forests of the eastern U.S., silvopasturing has struggled to take hold