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April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring? If you’re a fan of riddles, you already know the answer – Pilgrims. For graziers throughout North America, however, this riddle may have a different answer – weed seeds. If grass is your crop, May flowers usually mean a bumper crop of weeds waiting to go to seed, unless you have lots of legumes in your pasture.
Are you considering planting new alfalfa fields with a Roundup Ready variety but concerned about the higher seed cost? There are ways to hold costs down, but first make sure that the Roundup Ready trait is right for your operation.
Tornado warnings, winter storm warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings – these weather events are familiar to all of us. But have you ever heard of a ‘drought’ warning?
Drought is sneaky. You know it’s going to happen; you just don’t know when. All is going well; you have a little dry period; and before you know it and without warning, you’re in a drought.
Damaged, rained-on hay. Nearly everyone has to feed it sometime. How should your feeding practices be adjusted, though, to account for any damage caused by the rain?
Livestock diets are developed to provide what is believed to be the appropriate balance of nutrients to produce a specific outcome in animal performance. Nutrient content of feedstuffs is matched to the dietary needs of the animal to create each ration.
You know what to look for when choosing corn hybrids for grain – things like grain yield, standability, maturity and pest resistance – but what about for silage? What else might you look for with silage?
There isn’t a much more sickening feeling than to watch a group of hungry cows start falling over dead after feeding them a fresh bale of hay. Yet, that’s exactly what can happen when hay containing a high concentration of nitrates is fed incorrectly.
Hay feeding season will be here soon. Before it arrives, livestock producers can take actions that will enable them to use their hay resources efficiently as well as prepare for even the worst storms.
Rained-on hay – nearly everyone has to feed it sometime. How should feeding practices be adjusted, though, to account for any damage caused by the rain?
