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Farmers in many parts of Texas are taking advantage of warm weather and plentiful cool-season grass growth to begin replenishing depleted hay supplies, say Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....More

Ways to prevent bermudagrass stands from declining will be discussed at the first-annual, two-day forage conference as part of the Georgia Cattlemen's Association Annual Convention, April 5-7 in Perry....More

Tight and expensive. That describes the seed supply of pearl millet, sorghum-sudangrass, forage sorghum and sudangrass, says Dennis Hancock, University of Georgia Extension forage specialist...More

Tall-growing grasses, including orchardgrass, smooth bromegrass, meadow fescue and timothy, maintain productivity and persistence when a 3-4” residue is left. That’s according to Geoff Brink...More

The past 17 years, V. Mac Baldwin has slowly and successfully incorporated summer-annual crabgrass as part of his Yanceyville, NC, grazing operation. He estimates average daily gains of 2-3 lbs/head. “I’m raising cattle on a grass they love to eat and that loves to grow naturally – especially when other forages don’t want to grow in hot weather"...More

Research shows that taking cattle off toxic fescue and onto novel-endophyte fescue around breeding time will increase conception rates....More

Grass production may become a new agricultural wave in southeastern South Dakota if a five-year research project yields positive results. Since 2008, South Dakota State University (SDSU) researchers have been growing, harvesting and grazing native grasses on 650 acres near Colman. The land is leased by EcoSun Prairie Farms, a non-profit corporation established to demonstrate the economic and ecological benefits of converting cropland to grass production on some of the area’s most productive soils....More

Forage specialist John Jennings surveyed Arkansas producers and found interest was slowly increasing toward adding novel-endophyte tall fescues into endophyte-infected pastures....More

Last week’s hay stocks report from USDA brought few surprises for most market observers....More

Peach trees may get some help from tall fescue, planted as a cover crop to keep nematicides from invading....More

Late-season rain bolstered hay-yield expectations in some areas, but overall U.S. production will be down significantly from 2010 levels, USDA verified earlier today...More

Early lactation cows like tall or meadow fescue added as part of the silage portion of their diets. Producers may, too. Milk yields were maintained and, in some cases, even increased by 3-4 lbs/day in University of Wisconsin trials...More