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

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 ...

These crops — such as barley, rye, and triticale — are popular winter forages, but the ideal harvest timing depends on ...

When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility that makes it easy to love. Agronomy experts at the University of Vermont, North Dakota State University and the ...

Every livestock producer understands the stakes: forage quality determines herd health, milk production and profitability. Yet many operations still lose 20–30% of nutritional value between field and ...

Several years ago, I wrote a column with the same headline. Weather conditions at that time were ideal, with favorable soil ...

Summer annual forages offer producers a flexible option for converting select acres into profitable grazing or forage systems ...

For more than a decade, University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines sought an answer for Magic Valley farmers in need of a short-season crop to plant after harvesting corn silage for ...

Farming for cattle feed accounts for nearly half of the water drawn out of the depleted Colorado River. Researchers are ...

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

A new study of honeybee exposure to pesticides finds that a widely used neonicotinoid drifts so far, and lasts so long, that planting “pollinator strips” of untreated forage may not be of much help to ...