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When it comes to ranching, our pastures, forages and rangeland are our life’s blood. Search these archives for information pertaining to weed control, brush control and maintaining the proper balance of nutrients in our soils. Read about the qualities of different varieties of grasses like Bermuda, Bahia and Fescue—and so much more.
Texas Grasses Struggling Due To Drought And Freeze
published: May 1st 2013 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife
COLLEGE STATION – Much of the state’s warm-season grass pastures have yet to recover from damage suffered during the 2011 drought, said a Texas A&M Agricultural Extension Service forage expert....
Grazing Leases Need A Disaster Clause
published: April 30th 2013 source: KTIC
With on-going drought conditions, beef producers will face crucial management decisions this year. Landowners and leasee should consider how they will balance the forage demanded by the animals with the amount of forage grown for proper grazing management....
Winter Wheat Damaged By Recent Frosts
published: March 28th 2013 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife
A large part of the Texas winter wheat crop could have been damaged by hard freezes March 24-26, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. “Temperatures in the teens and low 20s appear to have been common in the Panhandle, and in the upper 20s and low 30s in the Blacklands on Sunday night and Monday morning,” said Dr....
Brazil In Position To Pass US As Soybean Producer
published: March 18th 2013 source: KTIC
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP)--An Iowa State University expert says long-term trends and recent weather patterns have put Brazil in a position to overtake the United States as the world's leading producer of soybeans....
Water improvement opportunities during drought
published: March 8th 2013 by: Herschel George, Will Boyer, Jeff Davids
With every storm that blows through, we hope it brings precipitation to fill the soil profile and the ponds. But no. . .not yet. Maybe it is like the old adage of “a watched pot never boils”....
Pasture And Livestock Management School Set For Overton
published: February 9th 2013 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife
OVERTON – Even though parts of Texas have had relief from the drought, grain and fertilizer prices remain high, which makes efficient pasture management as critical as ever to livestock producers, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist....
Cutting hay expense
published: January 25th 2013
Purposely not feeding hay to mid-to-late-lactation beef cows on alternate days – and offering dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) in its place on those days – can safely save producers up to 25% of their forage inventories....
Irrigation management, technology help producers survive drought
published: January 25th 2013
AMARILLO – Two years of drought have forced adoption of new technology and management practices in crop irrigation, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist in Amarillo....
Cutting Hay Expense
published: January 15th 2013 by: Fae Holin source: Hay and Forage Grower
Purposely not feeding hay to mid- to late-lactation beef cows on alternate days – and offering dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) in its place on those days – can safely save producers up to 25% of their forage inventories....
AgriLife scientists at Overton working on new lablab variety
published: January 11th 2013 source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
The value of lablab, an annual tropical legume, as potential quality forage has long been known, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be made a lot better, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant breeder....
Rumen-fluid-based analysis gives ranchers more definitive source of best-digested forages
published: October 19th 2012
COLLEGE STATION – A laboratory test using beef cattle rumen fluid can pinpoint which forages will be best utilized by Texas livestock, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist....
Replacing hay with winter pasture requires action now
published: October 5th 2012
As commodity prices increase and the amount of hay available decreases, many agricultural producers are concerned about feeding their cattle until spring of 2013. "Winter pasture, while expensive and traditionally used for stocker cattle, may fit a producer's cow management system because of recent drought circumstances," said David Annis, soils and crops consultant at Noble Foundation....
Grasshoppers To Stay Awhile
published: July 26th 2012 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife
COLLEGE STATION – If you’ve got grasshopper problems now, you’re probably going to continue to have them until this fall, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist. Grasshoppers are long-lived; they’re with us most of the summer, and growers are still battling them, said Dr....
Three Year Tail On Drought
published: July 6th 2012 by: Jennifer Stewart source: Purdue University
Livestock producers who fail to properly manage the drought could find themselves dealing with the consequences long after the rains return, says a Purdue Extension beef specialist. Exceptionally high temperatures and extremely low rainfall have coupled to stress livestock and reduce their feed supplies....
Arkansas Forage/Hay Situation Called Code Blue
published: June 28th 2012 source: CNHI
Phil Sims, Extension staff chair in Pope County for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, had just three words Tuesday for the hay situation in Pope County: “Critical. Code Blue....
Experts Conclude Texas Cattle Deaths An Isolated Incident
published: June 27th 2012 by: Blair Fannin source: Texas AgriLife
COLLEGE STATION – Texas AgriLife Extension Service experts said Tuesday the deaths of 15 cattle in Bastrop County recently were likely an isolated event and that no further problems are anticipated....
Potential Toxicity Issues With Tifton 85 Bermudagrass
published: June 25th 2012 by: Dr. Larry Redmond source: Texas AgriLife
Recently, 15 head of Corriente roping calves died as a result of prussic acid poisoning in Bastrop cattle in a clean field of Tifton 85 bermudagrass. While this has never been reported before, results of analyses of rumen contents and the fresh forage confirmed death was due to prussic acid poisoning....
More Grasshoppers and Less Bees This Year
published: June 15th 2012 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgrlLife
Last year’s drought is the most likely reason producers are seeing more grasshoppers and fewer honeybees this year, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. High grasshopper populations are tied to hot, dry weather for a number of reasons, said Dr....
Evaluating summer nitrogen sources
published: June 15th 2012 by: James Locke source: Noble Foundation
Now that ammonium nitrate (34-0-0) has become so expensive and all but impossible to get, anyone who needs to apply nitrogen (N) during hot weather should evaluate the alternatives. If you are in an area where ammonium nitrate is still available, it is still an excellent source of nitrogen, but it is prudent to compare its price against other sources....
Be Ready For Grasshoppers
published: June 11th 2012 source: Noble Foundation
From the Old Testament to Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, grasshoppers have always played the villain. As summer approaches, agricultural producers in the Southern Great Plains should expect this particular insect to play its usual rogue role....
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