300 Days of Grazing - Reduce Supplement Needs
Researchers at Arkansas University have put together an intensive programme to help producers get 300 days out of pasture. To date it has resulted in about $200,000 in direct savings to producers enrolled in the programme, reports Charlotte Johnston,...

Reducing Volatile Organic Compounds in Silages
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) can have short and long-term adverse health effects but can also impact feed intake. Biomin looks at how VOCs can be reduced in silages using inoculants.

Brazilian Rainforest Caught Between Biodiversity and Business
Brazil is exporting more and more agricultural produce: soya beans and beef in particular, but also corn, rice and sugar. Taken together, these exports represent half of Brazil’s total today, writes Gaëlle Courcoux from the Institut de Recherche pour...

Frost Seed Clover in 2012
An important forage option available to cattlemen is the addition of clover to cool season grass pastures. The addition of clover to grass pastures will improve the quality of forage that cattle graze, dilute infected tall fescue and also supply nitrogen...

Buying Hay or Silage after a Flood, Fire or Drought
Home grown or purchased hay or silage are extremely valuable feeds after a flood or fire. If well made, they should be safe to feed and are excellent “comfort food” for short term feeding of cattle, horses, sheep and other grazing animals, writes...

Pasture and Grazing Management Under Drought Conditions
Drought is a fact of life in the Southeast, whether it occurs once every five years or for five consecutive years. While little can be done during drought conditions to increase forage pasture growth in the short term, careful management could minimize...

Tips To Reduce Winter-Feeding Hay Costs
Winter-feeding of the beef cows represents the greatest expense in most beef cow-calf enterprises. Currently high feed prices, even for hay, should cause farmers to evaluate their winter-feeding strategies to identify ways to reduce feed costs through...

Overgrazing And Wildfires Control
According to New Mexico State University rangeland expert Derek Bailey, overgrazing and 20th century fire-suppression strategies have laid the groundwork for some of today’s “catastrophic” wildfires.

Biofuel And Beef Cattle Systems
Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist from North Dakota State University Extension Service looks at what the impact of changing biofuel policies has on beef cattle systems.

Effect Of Heating On Feed Value Of Hay
Hay fires have been a major problem in south-east Australia in recent years. Hundreds of hay shed fires have been recorded in NSW, Victoria and South Australia due to spontaneous combustion. It is also likely that a significant amount of hay has been...

USDA: Effects Of Rising CO₂ On Rangelands
Rising carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels can reverse the drying effects of predicted higher temperatures on semi-arid rangelands, according to a study published in the scientific journal Nature by a team of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and...

Better Grazing Practices Hold Key To Droughts
The current drought in northern Kenya has deep roots in the current practices of pastoralists that need to be addressed, says conservationist David Western, Chairman of the African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.

Potential Of Grass On Beef Farms
Grazed grass is the cheapest feed on beef farms and offers the most potential to increase profitability, according to researchers at Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre in Ireland.

Stockpiled Pasture Provides Winter Grazing
Mid-August is time to get pastures in shape for growing winter stockpile grass.

Stocking System Effects On Pasture Quality
Fall-calving Angus cows grazed tall fescue pastures by three stocking systems to determine their effects on forage yield, quality, and species composition; soil carbon content, bulk density, and water infiltration; and cow and calf performance.