Tag: grazing
No substitute for quality forages
Forage quality has a huge effect on your cows' health and productivity and is arguably the single most important factor to dairy profitability.
For good spring and summer pastures, start early
Manage your pastures early and often for a good growing season.
Dairy graziers challenged to keep eye on genetics
Dairy graziers learn about how genetics and genomic testing can improve their herd.
Annuals offer perennial advantange
Fall is a critical season for the perennial pasture plant.
Pasture walks scheduled
By PETE CONKLE
The Eastern Ohio Grazing Council has planned workshops and pasture walks to answer grazing-related questions, share grazing ideas and encourage producers to...
Sorghum-sudangrass a summer alternative for feed and fuel
By CHRIS PENROSE and CLIF LITTLE
Sorghum-sudangrass hybrids are warm season annual forages that look like sudangrass in growth but are generally taller, with larger...
Harvesting stockpiled fescue and improving forages and soil health
Stockpiled fescue is forage allowed to grow and accumulate for future use, often during a forage deficit. It is common practice to harvest and...
Are your fields tired? Give them a rest
How are your hay and pasture fields doing this summer? There has been so much rain in many areas this year that some may...
Intensive grazing takes management with a capital M
The amount of proper Management is what determines how successful forage production will be in a grazing system.
Bad news: Yes, it’s been a cold spring; good news: possibly...
I’ve been hearing many complaints about the weather. We all know to expect variable weather in early spring, so I decided to look up...
