Other Livestock Archive
Insect Thresholds Outmoded?
Alfalfa growers should be vigilant in scouting for yield- and quality-robbing insects and may need to consider spraying at lower thresholds than those currently recommended....
Super Silage
The corn silage portion of the milking ration at Vreba Hoff Dairy 2, Hudson, MI, is about one-third brown midrib (BMR) corn and two-thirds conventional...
NFTA To Create Blind Sampling Procedures
The National Forage Testing Association (NFTA) is putting a constructive spin on a recent brouhaha over blind-sample testing of selected laboratories....
Super Memories
When Carl Stiemsma won the World's Forage Analysis Superbowl, he was a young dairyman striving to improve milk production in his registered Holstein herd,...
Superbowl Shows Diversity Of Quality Forages
The World's Forage Analysis Superbowl was started to create an awareness of the differences in forage quality and of the value of forage quality to the...
Aiming For Answers
Nebraska hay growers have been frustrated for years with wide variations in forage-test results from laboratories. Big differences in relative feed value...
University of Nebraska Closes Testing Lab
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Soil & Plant Analytical Laboratory has closed its doors, says Mark Lagrimini, head of the university's agronomy and...
NFTA Plans Blind Sampling, Asks Members For Feedback
Recent attempts to blind sample forage-testing labs and results showing wide variations within and among labs have led the National Forage Testing Association...
A Savory Sudangrass
Sudangrass's popularity and market potential may increase with this spring's introduction of a new hybrid. That hybrid contains a brown-midrib (BMR) gene...
Weed Eaters
Goats are gaining a newfound respect among cattlemen across Kansas, thanks to their fondness for sericea lespedeza, a noxious weed. Goats readily consume...
