Pasture-Forage
High winds and eerily dry conditions across Kansas and the Southern Plains have created what’s been a battleground for continuous wildfires this year, as the fires are robbing some ranchers of vital grass.
Grassroots Carbon has provided payment to 10 Texas ranchers for their adoption of reversative grazing pastures which have resulted in nature-based, measured, verified and certified carbon credits.
Weeds can reduce the quantity and the stand life of desirable forage plants in pastures and hayfields.
AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths reports that evaporation has increased the salinity in stock dams in South Dakota, some to lethal levels for livestock.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Sand County Foundation a grant to empower farmers with real-time data about their conservation practices.
The latest U.S. Drought monitor indicates drought is gripping pastures, with 60% of the nation’s cow herd is now in some level of drought or dryness, and it’s causing cow slaughter numbers to climb.
USDA and partners complete first of its kind sale of carbon credits from working ranch grasslands.
Montana ranchers embrace holistic management to improve the natural resource.
Freshly baled hay with more than 20% moisture will heat up and actually reduce the energy level of the hay.
“Have you considered teff grass?” This is a growing response to those who are looking for more crop choices in their operations.