Proper fermentation begins with harvesting at the correct moisture level. However, hitting that moisture sweet spot can be a challenge, according to Joe Lauer, University of Wisconsin Extension corn a...

Photo: Colorado State UniversityAs if it isn’t enough that we have to worry about the blistering heat, now we need to worry about blister beetles — for many reasons, too. Patrick Wagner, an entomo...

During the first session of the Silage for Beef Cattle Conference, which is sponsored by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Extension, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, and Iowa State University (ISU) Ext...

University of Maryland Extension Pasture and Forage Specialist Amanda Grev advises, “The end of summer will be here before we know it, and now is the time to be thinking ahead about plans for pastur...

A common practice for hunters is to transition wooded areas into palatable food plots for wildlife; silvopastoral systems are based on the same idea. Dirk Philipp, University of Arkansas associate pro...

Growing up on a farm raising 4-H livestock projects, my family and local extension agents always told me if I wouldn’t drink the water in the troughs, I shouldn’t expect the livestock to drink it...

In recent weeks, much of the U.S. has experienced high temperatures with little relief from rainfall. David Barker with The Ohio State University states, “Although the experts don’t all agree if t...

Methane accounts for only 10% of the greenhouse gases emitted in the United States. Of that, only 3.8% originate from enteric fermentation of dairy cattle. Still, the industry is under pressure to kee...

As a warm-season grass, pearl millet is given its due credit for producing ample amounts of high-quality forage when other cool-season species are not, but it is often underutilized on cow-calf operations. The summer annual can be used for hay or silage, but Mark Mauldin, an extension educator in Calhoun County, Fla., addresses its qualities as a grazing forage in the University of Florida Extension’s Panhandle Ag e-News.“There are periods in a mature cow’s production...

Cattle-ingested forage seeds can potentially pass and disperse across pastures, but the journey through the digestive tract is hazardous for the seeds.While past studies show that this natural process of overseeding works, the rates of viable seeds producing plants are extremely low, which is why University of Arkansas Extension Forage Specialist John Jennings prefers frost seeding to feeding seed to cattle. Jennings cites a 1991 Auburn University study that examined...