Winter grazing strategies are reducing reliance on one producer's stored feed, but cost-saving measures don’t always meet ...

“Now is the time to prepare forage and cattle for the fall and winter grazing season,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Proper management of cattle and ...

WHITE, South Dakota — Meet John and Sharon Leiferman: cow-calf producers in their mid-60s, blazing a snow trail toward their 70s, innovating with a low-labor technique called “bale grazing.” In 1991, ...

Feeding cattle can be a labor intensive process, and research at Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, North Dakota, provides some guidance on practices that can ease the time ...

WADENA, Minn. - Ivan and Dayle Reinke are sold on winter bale grazing for their cattle. For the Wadena farmers it has meant a 30 percent increase in soil fertility on their farm's sandy soils. "But to ...

Conserving multispecies swards as hay instead of silage has cut losses from spoilage and saved wrapping and disposal costs ...

Understanding Cold Stress in Cows Cattle are naturally adapted to cold weather, but their ability to stay warm depends on factors such as their winter coat, body condition score (BCS), nutrition, and ...

Dr. David Anderson, AgriLife Extension livestock marketing economist, said calf prices have risen in recent weeks due to improving pasture and rangeland conditions and prospects for winter grazing.

Winter often feels like the quietest season on a ranch. Grasses are dormant, cattle are settled into winter feed sources, and it can feel like the landscape is resting. Yet for range and grazing ...

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the UC Davis found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form ...

Winter Livestock is having a special Rollover Auction Feb. 25 to help ranch families impacted by recent wildfires.

Supplementing the diets of grazing beef cows with seaweed in pellet form could cut their methane emissions by almost 40 percent, a new study has found. The seaweed pellets led to this plunge in ...