June 6, 2023• Pasture grasshopper populations are on the rise in western Nebraska. • Seed warm-season annuals now to boost forage supplies. • Dry conditions across the Midwest fa

Resilience is a word that is often bandied around, but what exactly does it mean in relation to agriculture and forages? The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as the “capacity to withstand or

It’s this time of year when grasses show us and tell us what they’re made of. They tell us what they like and what they don’t like. It seems some people never learn the language of grasses

April 4, 2023• The first USDA Prospective Plantings report of the year pegged all harvested hay acres at 50.65 million for 2023. This was about 1 million acres more than last year’s final to

March 7, 2023• Where drought occurred last summer, range ecologists are recommending delayed turn out to give the grass a chance to recover.• For Northern locations, Marc

January 3, 2023• Cattle and calves on feed for the U.S. slaughter market in feedlots over 1,000 head capacity totaled 11.7 million head on December 1. The inventory was 3% below the previous year.

July 5, 2022• Harvested hay acre projections by USDA were increased in their June Acreage report. Total harvested hay acres are now forecasted at 51.5 million, which is 1.5% higher than 2021 and 2.3

Forty years is a long time to be doing one thing, but it would seem a lot longer if that thing was not truly relevant

I was fresh of out college in the late 1970s and found myself working on a large dairy and grain crop operation in southern Illinois

This year provided us one of the strangest planting seasons in recent memory. With a reported 19 million acres of prevent plant and an estimated 4 million acres of alfalfa damaged by winter weather

The most widely planted tall fescue variety today is Kentucky 31 (KY-31), which was released in 1943 by E.N. Fergus

In the Midwest, planting winter-hardy cereal grasses such as winter rye or triticale after fall-harvested corn or soybeans can provide both soil benefits and a grazing resource in the spring

University of WisconsinPerhaps no forage species is as perplexing and invokes such a wide range of emotions or adjectives as reed canarygrass. I learned this lesson early in my former extension s

Let’s make this easy — use RFQ, not RFV. You can stop here, or continue to read on. The relative forage quality (RFQ) metric for indexing forage nutritive value has now been around for over

Fifty-eight schools and local organizations have received nearly $100,000 in community investment grants from DuPont Pioneer in 2015. These grants, awarded through the Pioneer Northern Business Unit

World Forage Analysis Superbowl has announced the lineup for the 2015 Dairy Forage Seminars, held in conjunction with the World Dairy Expo. Seminars will be presented at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. We

Mike Rankin here . . . and for the past nearly 27 years, I was the crops and soils agent with the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Fond du Lac County. Previous to attending graduate school at Iowa