Soil fertility plays a crucial role in forage production and can directly impact farm profitability. Yet, when budgets ...

Planting cover crops such as brassicas and small grains during late summer or early fall is becoming a more common and accepted practice. Often these cover crops are grazed as a forage double crop.

Small-grains like triticale are a familiar part of the forage program on many dairy farms. But deciding when to harvest them ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A wide range of forage crops could help grain and livestock producers salvage some value from their fields once the drought-ravaged corn crop has been harvested - if soil ...

FARGO - Drought-challenged dairy producers facing forage shortages may be able to feed their cows canola and related crops, provided they take certain precautions. "Recent rains were spotty, and ...

The Smith family captures value from cover crops twice—first as high-quality cattle feed and then as biological fuel for ...

East Texas ranchers can attend the Beef and Forage Field Day at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton on April 9.

Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets are back this summer, causing considerable damage to rangelands and forage in western states. The insects cause $318 million in crop losses to alfalfa annually, ...

After corn silage comes off, dairy farmers will often consider seeding fields to winter rye as a cover crop. It’s an easy, ...

DR. STEBLER's well-known work, “Die besten Futterpflanzen,” has found a translator into English. A French translation is also before us. so that it is now available to everyone who speaks any one of ...

North Dakota State University’s North Central Research Extension Center located near Minot, has welcomed James Rogers as a North Dakota State University Extension forage crops production specialist.

Agency: "Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, USDA." SUMMARY: This action informs the public that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is withdrawing a final rule with request for comments ...