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Recent studies indicate that native grasses can be a useful “tool” for forage producers, providing a good complement to tall fescue or orchardgrass and a low-input alternative to bermudagrass. There are five species typically considered for forage production:
The world population reached seven billion people in 2011. By 2050, it is projected that a global population of nine billion people will need to be fed.
The Forage & Grassland Foundation is offering a first-ever John E. Baylor memorial scholarship of $1,000 for undergraduate college students in their sophomore, junior or senior year with a major related to the growing and/or feeding of forage to livestock.
They were mostly black, three in number. They were traveling together, the two in the rear following the first. I was traveling east on Highway 375 in southern Nevada when I noticed the trio moving in behind me.
This has been a really good year for many of our county’s farmers, particularly our beef farmers. One sign that we have had a good year are the number of calls I fielded about ways to avoid or divert potential tax issues prior to Dec. 31, 2014.
Old Mother Nature can surely be a crafty old gal; just ask anyone in Texas and Oklahoma who suffers through a three-year drought twice a decade or the folks in Iowa, Illinois or Ohio who were trying to calve in 2 feet of snow last spring.
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