When it comes to planting legumes for cattle forage, broadcasting is cheaper than drilling, but drilling provides the seedlings a better survival rate for these highly nutritious plants, said Dirk Philipp, assistant professor-forages, for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

If you want to increase your pasture’s productivity next year, you need to prepare your pasture for the winter this fall. Follow these three steps to maximize your pasture’s nutritional value for next spring:

If you want to increase your pasture’s productivity next year, you need to prepare your pasture for the winter this fall. Follow these three steps to maximize your pasture’s nutritional value for next spring:

Green World Ag LLC is introducing a new type of crop preservative for dry hay making – Option-one WS concentrate, a dry, water-soluble formulation developed to give the producer more control over waste, amounts used and money spent.

If you want to increase your pasture’s productivity next year, you need to prepare your pasture for the winter this fall. Follow these three steps to maximize your pasture’s nutritional value for next spring:

Canadian hay marketers are continuing to see a surge in demand for their products. Unfortunately, there have been some less-than-successful outcomes. The increase in demand combined with a shortage of forage products due to drought conditions appears to be bringing out some unethical operators. The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association have been advised of several situations whereby large deposits had been paid but the hay was not delivered, and a couple of situations where the delivered hay was not of the quality that was agreed upon.

As livestock producers begin to examine this year’s harvest and prepare to feed the less than up-to-par crop to their animals, many questions are starting to come up in the field. Is this mold? Should I be worried about aflatoxins, DON or other toxins? What steps should I take to protect my herd?

Alltech has re-opened its tollfree mycotoxin hotline to answer questions like these. Besides answering questions from the field, the hotline also provides a centralized point of access to references and industry experts on the topic.