Arkadelphian

Forecast rain provides incentive for cool-season plantings

Another forecast for a rainy weekend means another opportunity for ranchers to speed-plant some cool-season forages ...
Grand Island Independent

Plant oats for extra forage

With dry subsoils and pastures weakened by last year's drought, producers may want to consider planting oats this spring for extra forage. Oats are a good choice because they can be grazed earlier ...
High Plains Journal

Seeding cover crops aerially can boost grazing potential

Drones can help producers establish cover crops earlier in the season and achieve both fall and spring grazing from the same ...
The Eagle

Growing forage year-round

Oats are the least winter-hardy of the cool-season annual grasses. They can be planted in early fall and usually produce more early spring forage than most wheat varieties, since their production ...
nptelegraph

Oats may make for good planting option in August

It’s almost August and fall is just around the corner. Could you use some extra pasture or hay in late September and October? Oats might be the answer. Oats may be one of our most under-used fall ...
Rapid City Journal

Study looks for most productive forage blends

Small grain growers may be able to double the value of their crop ground by planting forages after harvest, but this depends on growing environment and forage blend. Last season, researchers at South ...
The Journal

Forage following wheat

Wheat harvest is upon us and that leads us to be thinking about some forage opportunities after harvest is complete. There is plenty of growing season left this year and there are several forage ...
Field & Stream

What’s the Best Food Plot Forage for Each Region?

But posing a question like that can stimulate serious debate about the qualities of the various food plot forages and whether you are doing what’s best for the deer on your land. And that, in the end, ...
extension.purdue.edu

Understanding Agriculture – Growing Hay

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...
KUOW

Forage seeds sold out, cattle sales up amid impending second year of West-wide drought

Mason Douglass dials his desk phone from a spick-n-span triple-wide plunked in a gravel lot in front of 30 silver corrugated silos outside of Connell, Washington. “It’s probably going to be a ...
The Eagle

Growing forage year-round

Oats are the least winter-hardy of the cool-season annual grasses. They can be planted in early fall and usually produce more early spring forage than most wheat varieties, since their production ...