A line of cows is the best treatment for your pasture. With a mob of cows, a paddock system, high-tensile wire, and electric fencing, you can cut hay expenses, improve soil and pasture health, and ...

UC ANR scientists are at Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center studying how seaweed additives could be incorporated into cattle grazing systems to reduce methane production.

Most people would agree there is nothing better than eating produce picked fresh from the garden. Similarly, cattle opt to graze the newest grass in a pasture because it is the most appealing, Kansas ...

Before cattle are turned to grass for the summer, it’s important for producers to make the right preparations to ensure their livestock have a healthy and safe grazing season. Morgan Kauth, a producer ...

In southwest Iowa, the fields can be dry, sloped or have rough soil that is poor for growing corn or soybeans and is prone to ...

Sheep don’t graze like cattle — and that difference could be a major advantage. Kansas State University veterinarians Brad White and Todd Gunderson along with beef cattle nutritionist, Phillip ...

In a scrubby pasture in deep southwest Georgia, reclaimed from growing pesticide-drenched cotton, Allan Savory—ecologist, philosopher, TED speaker—stoops to pluck a blade of grass. “What can we do to ...

In Arkansas, one farmer’s weed is another farmer’s favorite forage, says David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist and interim assistant dean of academic programs for the University of Arkansas ...

The other day, in Puerto Rico, I stumbled across one small piece of an agricultural revolution. It didn't look all that revolutionary — just an abandoned sugar plantation where workers are clearing ...

Pasture lands have been stripped down to a sea of sand after wildfires tore across the U.S. Plains, killing cattle and wiping out their food sources, and threatening a historically small herd already ...

Iowa agricultural officials have extended a cattle and conservation project that has its roots in southwest Iowa.