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 a...

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...