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Hay growers and livestock producers in Arkansas are used to dealing with fall armyworms, often as early as July. This year, a different version of the pest, the true armyworm, is already showing up in hayfields and pastures. says Kelly Loftin, entomologist with University of Arkansas Extension....More

Converting row-crop production from conventional tillage to strip-till plus a winter cover crop could save soil and money...More

Indiana farmers may want to consider planting an annual forage crop after their winter wheat harvest, says Keith Johnson, Purdue Extension forage specialist...More

With wheat fields struggling amid drought conditions through parts of the High Plains, some producers may be considering cutting and baling their crops for hay. If so, “the sooner, the better”...More

For the better part of the last decade, farmers in eastern New Mexico have had to plan for their summer growing season without knowing how much water – if any – will be available for irrigation, due to severe water limitations...More

Oregon State University (OSU) has developed the first winter hooded barley that produces high yields of forage, thrives in the Northwest and resists a fungus known as stripe rust...More

Straw going into mini-bales has to be clean and bright, a requirement that has created a lot of extra work for Gary Thering and his family. He buys wheat straw in the field from other farmers, bales it, hauls the round bales home and stacks them in his barn...More

Many people consider sweet clover, which shows up naturally in Nebraska pastures each year, a weed. Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist, suggests how to make it a welcome grassland addition...More

They only started grazing turnips as part of Michigan State University research in 2006. But the brassica offers enough benefits that it has remained a part of their dairy’s forage rotation...More

Winter triticale looks as promising as winter rye as a precut straw crop harvested before grain fill, recent Cornell University field trials show...More

New varieties and herbicides are available for Southern Coastal Plain forage producers who grow rhizoma perennial peanut, dubbed the alfalfa of the South....More