Grazing
USDA Releases CRP For Grazing In Flood Regions
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer announced yesterday that he is releasing Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for livestock grazing in ...
Multiple-Pasture System Could Cut Costs
Beef producers can reduce fertilizer and fuel inputs by going to multiple-pasture systems, says Gerald Evers, Texas AgriLife Research forage management scientist. Many use two-pasture systems based on ...
USDA Releases CRP For Haying, Grazing
USDA has authorized that certain acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can be made available for haying and grazing after the primary nesting season ends for grass-nesting birds...
Improved Fescues Show Mixed Financial Benefits
Dairy cows produced more milk when grazing endophyte-free or novel (non-toxic)-endophyte tall fescue varieties instead of conventional fescue in a study by researchers...
Rangeland Invader
Medusahead will take over the West if we don't do something, says Roger Sheley, a USDA-ARS ecologist at the Eastern Oregon Ag Research Center in Burns,...
GPS Collars Track Cattle On Range
In 1981, Doug Johnson began studying the way grazing animals move around their pastures. Twenty years later, he added a new twist. We started using GPS...
Alfalfa: A Great Grazing Crop
Alfalfa offers excellent opportunities as a grazing crop, said Garry Lacefield, University of Kentucky forage specialist, at the National Alfalfa Symposium last month...
Comparing Intensive With Continuous Grazing In Ohio
Management-intensive grazing increases average weight gain in beef cows and calves compared to conventional continuous grazing in Appalachian Ohio, according...
Marvelous Mix
Bob March was looking to maximize pasture for his beef cattle, hoping to get more fall and spring grazing and reduce his need for hay. After years of...
Cool-Season Grasses Rated For Grazing
Thirty-two improved grass varieties and grass/legume mixtures were graded for their yield and quality in grazing plots at the University of Findlay (OH)...
