Christine Su, co-founder of PastureMap, a mobile cloud-based grazing app for ranchers, said it’s her company’s mission to help farmers and ranchers be more profitable while building healthy

Many acres of pasture land were flooded in 2017. The extent of damage depends on many variables.My mama always taught me that good things come from adversity if we put our faith in the Lord. We couldn

It’s the middle of the summer. For most of the United States, August is the warmest month of the year and typically one of the driest months except for the Southwestern and Coastal states

During the ‘60s, it seemed the highlight of early spring for a farm boy in small town Ohio was planting oats

For me, the onset of August always brings a significant demarcation date for forage producers. The end of the hot season is near, and the start of the cooler fall season can be seen with binoculars ra

As we discussed in the March 2017 column, renovating a toxic fescue pasture to beneficial endophyte varieties is no small feat

An early spring application of Chaparral herbicide does double duty on tall fescue by controlling weeds and suppressing seedhead emergence

With one of the greatest expenditures of horse ownership being feed costs, horse owners often look for ways to reduce these costs

Improved legume species and varieties have the most impact on a pasture’s ability to support high milk production. Are you getting the most out of your pasture in terms of high-quality forage

Rotational grazing, or “rational grazing” as coined by French scientist Andre Voisin, has been proven to enhance production for graziers in just about every environment you can imagine

Having just returned from Oklahoma and Texas, I was reminded of the challenges that spring pasture management can pose. It’s really a good news-bad news situation.The good news: There is more than

During spring, the growth of cool-season grasses can be explosive and can easily get ahead of a grazier, resulting in a lot of seedhead biomass with low nutritive value

Hardly a blade of grass is wasted in New Zealand. Their agricultural economy is centered on forage production, and they are good at it. Those of us who have spent a career in pastoral agricultur

Thinking of renovating toxic fescue pastures in 2017? Beneficial endophyte fescue varieties offer cattle producers in the Fescue Belt an effective forage option to collectively improve pasture forage

The Noble Foundation undertook a foundation-wide research initiative called Forage 365 with the main objective to develop forages and grazing systems that provide grazeable forage year-round

Historically, producers are warned that it takes two to three years to establish native warm-season grasses

In many parts of the U.S., March marks the ideal frost-seeding time. Though not always a sure bet, frost seeding pastures has shown to be a time-proven practice for maintaining an effective level of l

One of the major goals of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation’s Forage Improvement Division has been the development of perennial cool-season forages, such as tall fescue, that could fill the "forage

Legumes improve forage quality and reduce nitrogen inputs in a pasture-based system. Grazing-based livestock producers frequently overseed cool-season grass pastures with legumes

Winter annual pastures can be a great option for lowering winter feeding costs by extending the grazing period and reducing or eliminating the need for traditional protein and energy supplements