Sunn hemp’s vigorous growth makes it a great complement to cool-season forages, says Harley Naumann, University of Missouri forage physiologist. Naumann’s six-year research shows that the ...

Twenty-five years ago, Brian Pemberton bought acreage filled with thorn trees, scrub brush and multiflora roses. The only water source was a frog pond. The land needed four things: a road, buildings, ...

John and Cathy Burgett have owned and operated their 200-head dairy farm in Tully for nearly three decades knowing it sits over the Cortland-Homer-Preble aquifer, the only source of drinking water for ...

LANSING, Iowa -Mark and Marcia Kruse's rotational grazing system runs along their ridge top farm straight south from the barn. On a clear day, they can see the Mississippi River and Wisconsin beyond.

Jim Gerrish, owner of American Grazing Lands Services LLC in May, Idaho, recently spoke to producers in Iowa on the benefits the rotational grazing programs. Gerrish describes how producers can take ...

A FIFE family has seen their grass production boosted after introducing a rotational grazing system on their Balhelvie Farm, near Newburgh. Jim and Matthew Wilson have also managed to reduce the ...

QUITMAN — Tony and LeVonna Uekman of Quitman are in the “consignment” business. Other farmers bring them their cattle “on consignment,” Tony said. He said they raise the steers or heifers, which are ...

WE read and hear a lot about grazing systems which involve very heavy stocking rates, extremely tight grazing, and sometimes short rotations of less than 14 days. According to some reports, this ...

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Rotational grazing isn't a new concept for beef farmers, but it is one that some farmers swear by. Central Queensland graziers, Rob and Ainsley McArthur, have doubled the number of cattle on their ...

Young farmers and new farming technology are some the reasons to be positive about the future of the agricultural industry in ...