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How I use watergates on my cattle farm
In the ideal world, they need to be able to hold in or deter livestock, but be able to allow water and debris to pass during periods of high water.
Sit back, relax and educate yourself
Learn more about keeping your pastures healthy post-harvest and planning for the ensuing planting season.
Still time to prepare your forage inventory before winter
Winter is quickly approaching, but there’s still time to get your forage inventory in order.
Reduce waste when feeding, storing hay
Hay handling tips that can keep your supply in good shape.
Some easy tips may help reduce hay losses from round bales
Large round bales are the most popular source of hay when winter feeding beef cattle. Unfortunately, these bales are subject to a variety of losses, including feeding loss. Bale feeder design Research published in the Journal of Animal Science has shown feeding losses can be influenced by bale feeder design. The feeders investigated in this
Even late in season, you can get more forage from fields
Livestock graziers, now is a good time to finish what is left in your hay fields and then utilize forage in stockpiled areas.
Avoid undesirable plants and improve forages with pasture management
We are at my favorite time of the year. Grass is starting to grow. Depending how far south you live, some have already started to graze pastures. On my farm, the spring calving cows have been on stockpiled fescue for about three weeks on high ground, avoiding most of the mud, but this weekend I
Winter management strategies are key to protecting sod base paddocks
In our Pasture For Profit grazing schools we talk about pasture management in terms of keeping pasture plants actively growing and matching livestock nutrient needs to plant growth stage. But now its winter and the plants aren’t growing, so what does winter pasture management entail? I want graziers to think about winter pasture management in
Fescue beneficial with management
As a little boy on our farm in Morgan County, I could identify orchardgrass, bromegrass, alfalfa and clover, but never heard of fescue. Then fescue moved in. I’m sure it was a combination of things. It was probably the spreading of fescue from reclamation projects and the fertility of the farm going down when it
Improve pasture quality (and milk) with legumes
Dairy cows fed high-quality forage produce more milk with less supplementation than cows fed lower-quality forage.
