After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...

“During a grazing season with normal precipitation and adequate quantities of lush, green forage, daily intake of beta-carotene may be three to five times the animal’s requirement,” says Block. “When ...

Explore how Deeside farmers manage wintering systems and forage crops, building resilience and adapting to unpredictable weather challenges.

Forages are a staple of all livestock operations in Vermont. There are a wide variety of types that can be grown in our area, including annual forage crops like silage corn, cereal grains, brassicas, ...

A Welsh grazier has taken life lessons from indigenous peoples and farming lessons from leading farmers and consultants to ...

Outwintering cattle on forage crops will be limited to farms on drier land. But where animals have access to such crops, outlined are some tips for grazing. The reader loyalty code gives you full ...

Forages are a staple of all livestock operations in Vermont. There are a wide variety of types that can be grown in our area, including annual forage crops like silage corn, cereal grains, brassicas, ...

Like our terminal-sired tups, the Aberfield SRs have been flying through the ewes, with everything covered in a fortnight. It ...

Maximizing forage quality helps maximize milk and component production. A ration is just one factor but feeding a diet of excellent-quality forage is typically associated with better cow health, ...

Their commercial cattle are sold to Tallgrass Beef Company in Kansas ... For the “midsummer slump,” he suggests they try foxtail millet or sudex. If forage is short in the fall, plant turnips, cereal ...

“Forage quality is an expression of the characteristics affecting consumption, nutritional value and then the following health and performance of the livestock,” he explained. “To understand ...

Those weather conditions affected the forages that farmers were able to harvest to feed their dairy cattle. Kurt Breunig, a livestock nutritionist with Premier Co-op in southern Wisconsin, said there ...