April 15, 2021
Wild pigs cause damage to both agricultural and non-agricultural lands, creating financial burdens for landowners and complicating future management...


April 6, 2021
While on a recent barnstorming journey from southern Wisconsin to southern Arkansas, I was able to make some spring pasture observations both from the vehicle window and while walking across numerous fields...


March 1, 2021
High-quality, lush pastures offer tremendous benefits for supporting animal performance in grazing systems. The following provides a few tips on how to use these pastures most effectively...


Feb. 19, 2021
One of the common questions that comes up when planning for a grazing season is how many times a pasture can safely be grazed each year...


Feb. 9, 2021
Little things often lead to big results. That’s always been the case when it comes to pasture and forage production...


Feb. 8, 2021
ONE way to think about plants is as sugar factories. But they are a funny type of factory where the product they make is also used to make the factory larger...


Jan. 22, 2021
When it comes to feeding cows in the wintertime, grazed forage in the field is usually the lowest cost feed source...


Jan. 19, 2021
Grazing management is getting more attention these days, but the vast majority of cow-calf producers still use continuous or lax rotational grazing...


Jan. 19, 2021
Every livestock producer needs to develop a contingency plan and then carefully monitor specific aspects of their pasture system to ensure survival through extreme weather conditions...


Jan. 19, 2021
In a grazing operation, how do we decide when and where to feed hay? This may seem like a silly question, but the answer is more complicated than one might think...