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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

What I found on my final solo venture of the summer was a house on a hill that was surrounded by a pasture full of cattle. It was the home farm for Grant Bauman and his family in Vienna, Ill...

In the southern Great Plains, wheat is by far the most common annual forage that is utilized by cattle operations. Thousands of winter wheat acres are used as dual-purpose grazing and grain crops or g...