Many people believe combining cows and pasture streams automatically means trouble. Certainly, if present in small, narrow pastures at high stocking rates for excessive periods of time, cows will contribute to the pollution of streams.

How was the quality of the alfalfa you harvested this year? Weather often has a large impact. However, harvest management can have a huge effect on drying rate and quality of harvested forage. Now is the time to evaluate how this year went and to plan for what changes might be implemented next year.

You don’t get to choose your family, but you do choose how you communicate and work with them. Read one Oregon family’s story.

There is something new under the sun, literally, in the world of forages. Some very clever scientists in Wales have tailored the genetics of perennial ryegrass to slow the conversion of newly minted sugars into other compounds, causing the accumulation of sugars in those cells. Read More

Incorporating cover crops into your operation isn’t, unfortunately, a “one size fits all” approach. Different soils do better with different cover crop species, steers and heifers require a species with higher energy than a dry cow and, of course, your growing season can throw a wrench into what you can plant and when.

I’ve told farmers (only partly tongue-in-cheek) that agronomists have job security because once they’ve convinced a fair percentage of their farmer clientele to move in one direction,