Grazing
Homemade Hitch Links Two Rakes
With diesel fuel selling for close to $4/gallon, it's costly for Kevin Kuhn to use one of his 100-hp tractors to pull a single 9' hay rake. So this Oconee,...
Recalculate N Rates For Bromegrass
With nitrogen prices up and beef-quality hay prices down, producers may want to re-evaluate how much nitrogen ...
Low-Tech Solution
A low-tech, easy-to-install-and-maintain irrigation system is giving U.S. grazing dairies a new tool to ensure pastures remain productive through summer...
Godiva Hay
The hay is green and leafy, testing 28-30% crude protein and 66-68% TDN. It's so high in quality that Jim Ochterski, a Cornell University ag economic...
Making The Cut
Tony Armstrong was getting tired of losing $30 pocketknives after cutting twine or net-wrap from bales fed to his 100-head beef herd near Kaycee, WY,...
USDA Releases CRP For Grazing In Flood Regions
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer announced yesterday that he is releasing Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for livestock grazing in ...
Multiple-Pasture System Could Cut Costs
Beef producers can reduce fertilizer and fuel inputs by going to multiple-pasture systems, says Gerald Evers, Texas AgriLife Research forage management scientist. Many use two-pasture systems based on warm-season grasses, grazing most of the year on one area and harvesting hay on the other at least part of the...
USDA Releases CRP For Haying, Grazing
USDA has authorized that certain acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can be made available for haying and grazing after the primary nesting season ends for grass-nesting birds...
Improved Fescues Show Mixed Financial Benefits
Dairy cows produced more milk when grazing endophyte-free or novel (non-toxic)-endophyte tall fescue varieties instead of conventional fescue in a study by researchers...
Rangeland Invader
Medusahead will take over the West if we don't do something, says Roger Sheley, a USDA-ARS ecologist at the Eastern Oregon Ag Research Center in Burns,...
