Acre Farmland Forage Pasture 
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MARCH 27, 2024
Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri. Many ranchers would like to avoid the risk of total pasture makeovers, if they can.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze. The fire burned right around them,” says the 73-year old rancher and owner of Diamond B Ranch, noting the intact areas—some as big as a quarter acre. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.
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Todays Farmer Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Focus on forage earns Cope Grass Farms 2023 Missouri Leopold Award Cope Grass Farms of Truxton, Mo., The Sand County Foundation and national sponsor American Farmland Trust present the Leopold Conservation Award to private landowners in 27 states. 17 during the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture in Osage Beach.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 19, 2024
Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 It is always overdrawn.”
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. farmland is regularly cover cropped.
Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Runoff from U.S.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
A few days later, Valley Center bean farmer Mike Reeske, who donated half an acre of his small farm for this crop, was already betting on which seeds would be the winners in the slow and steady race to find a heritage wheat that will grow—with rainwater only—in San Diego County. It makes sense instead of leaving unused fields unplanted.
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