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A total mixed ration (TMR) is defined as a method of feeding cows that combines feeds formulated to a specific nutrient content into a single feed mix that contains forages, grains, protein sources, minerals, vitamins and feed additives. This method of feeding has been highly adopted since the 1950s because it allows cows to consume a nutritionally balanced meal with every bite. Feeding a TMR has both advantages and disadvantages.
Continuing to expand its offering of jobsite cleanup solutions, John Deere is introducing the new GS66B, GS72B, GS78B and GS84B scrap grapple buckets and GR72B and GR84B rock grapple buckets into its line of Worksite Pro attachments.
“As kids, my brother and I took dynamite into the desert and blew up sagebrush.” That statement came from my grandfather in 1978.
“You did what?” Surely I hadn’t heard him right.
For the November issue, I wrote an article about the Norfolk Four Course: Turnips and clovers in revolution and how it helped increase agricultural production and made possible the first sustained population growth in England.
Discussions about change happen all the time. How do we plan for it? What should we say about it? How do we lead our team through it? Will it be seen as positive or negative?
The American Forage and Grassland Council (AFGC) will celebrate its 75th anniversary at the AFGC conference Jan. 6-9, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Properly balancing livestock forage demand with available supply is imperative for profitable ranching, yet it is the hardest task to accomplish. Precipitation produces forage, and forage produces beef, lamb and milk.
Producers can choose from a wide variety of forage species when they create a forage system from scratch. Options include both annuals and perennials, with both warm- and cool-season species represented, and the varieties available within species are many.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funded a research project conducted in Kentucky, Minnesota and New York to evaluate high-quality alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures.
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