Cover crops are allowing them to extend their grazing period, and findings show cover crops to be more economical even during multiple years of drought.
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Costs may have some producers rethinking their feedstuffs. Replacing 20% of corn with rye may be an alternative that producers can use strategically.
Many farmers are looking for ways to enhance their operations through increased efficiency and decreased cost of feed. Grazing annual forages may be the ticket producers need to achieve both these goals.
“It’s kind of like my mid-life crisis is trying so many things on the farm before my time runs out.”
Michael Thompson and his brother Brian were told there wasn’t a future for them at Thompson Farm & Ranch. However, the avid learner and experimenter knew there had to be a different (and more profitable) way to grow crops and raise cattle.
Crop and livestock producers will learn about cover crops for forage production and livestock grazing during a Cover Cropping and Conservation…
Kansas State University extension specialists and agents will host a cover crop workshop and livestock grazing tour Monday, Dec. 6.
Kansas State University beef systems specialist Jaymelynn Farney knows that every cattle producer has different herds and goals, but cool seas…
“Yeah, the principle of cover crops makes sense but how much are they going to cost me?”
Many crop producers are concerned that trampling from cattle grazing corn residue negatively affects crop yields. But when grazed at proper st…
“We feel like if we get the moisture that God gave us and leave it where it's supposed to be, we can get through most any year,” Barry Little said.
“The fact that he changed the soil color and classification based on how he treated his soil – that is impactful.” South Dakota producers learn from soil health farmer Jimmy Emmons.
The South Dakota Soil Health Coalition and soil health experts offer guidance on choosing cover crops for next season.
Cover crops can provide great fall and early winter forage for grazing before killing frosts stop growth. After the cover crop winter freezes,…
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a program to help livestock farmers find a place to graze and the crop farmers to make some extra money.
The corn in the Caputa, S.D., area had yet to be harvested as the calendar turned to November. Crop watcher Shawn Freeland was setting up paddocks in his winter grazing cover crops, moving cows closer to home and preg checking.
An SDSU Extension expert gives tips for grazing cover crops: Forage samples should be taken in a grid pattern to sample all that cattle will graze.
Salem, South Dakota farmers Kurt and Kathy Stiefvater will host the Soil Health School, a program of the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition, o…
Planting cover crops and grazing them sounds great in theory, but once farmers consider the extra costs and work that goes into it, many shy a…
Farmers have positive perceptions about cover crops. There are cost-share programs to incentivize their use. But an Iowa State University stud…
A new decision-making tool can help farmers assess the economics of cover crops. It’s free on Iowa State University’s Ag Decision Maker website.
FARGO, N.D. – Crop farmers who initially planted cover crops as a way to improve soil health are discovering that cover crops can also be a so…
Cover crops are good for soil health, but when cattle are added to the mix, producers are seeing even more benefits.
AUSTIN, MINN. – Farmers across the state are anxious to get into their fields. For weeks, equipment, tractors, tillage, planters, have been sitting in shops, fully serviced, just waiting for the right moisture, the right temperature for field work to begin. At the Cotter farm in Austin, Minn., it is not the equipment anxiously waiting to get in the fields, it is the cattle.
University of Idaho Extension is hosting Winter Beef Schools in December. Topics that will be discussed include: Mineral Nutrition, BQA, Grazi…
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