AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. According to U.S.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What’s in a Pasture Walk? If you’ve been to one pasture walk or field day, you’ve almost certainly been to more because field days are like potato chips – once you try them, you can’t stop. However, getting to a field day or pasture walk can be tough with so many competing priorities in life. They’re incredibly valuable.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Depending on your grazing strategy and how forages produced will factor into where you are at right now in feeding your cattle.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Each new boundary drawn by a rancher moves livestock onto a fresh paddock, allowing grazed pastures time to recover as livestock feed in a new location. “We Virtual fencing enables land managers to be precise and adaptive in their livestock grazing activities so native plants thrive in pastures. I don’t have piles of time.”

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West Texas Livestock

APRIL 26, 2024

As esteemed cattle producers, your expertise is invaluable in understanding the critical role of measuring pasture forage intake. Your knowledge and experience in properly assessing the amount of forage consumed by grazing animals is essential to optimizing their nutrition and overall well-being.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil. Genomic diversity and relationship analyses of endangered German Black Pied cattle (DSN) to 68 other taurine breeds based on whole-genome sequencing. India, Brazil, China, Pakistan and Sudan, apparently. I guess it depends.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 5, 2024

Lease agreements can help with retirement and pasture recovery.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 17, 2023

Texas A&M AgriLife initiates peer group learning for regenerative ranch management When Joe VanZandt walks across his ranchland in Wheeler County, he observes the soil, the plant growth, water availability and the cattle. Read More → The post Walking in another’s rotational grazing pastures appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Winter feeding costs are likely to be lower than last year, but the ongoing dry spell has cattle producers cautiously optimistic about sustaining their herds into spring. Learn more, plus the latest Texas Crop & Weather Report.

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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Regarding supplements, most cattle producers have a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, they see the value in how supplements improve cattle performance, but on the other hand, they cringe at the extra costs they bring. It’s why many producers hold off on feeding supplements unless absolutely necessary.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 10, 2024

Before cattle producers begin herd rebuilding, range specialists urge them to evaluate their pastures carefully and develop a strategy to help them recover from drought damage.

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Food Politics

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past eight years, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) has produced industry-backed lesson plans, learning resources, in-person events, and webinars as part of a program to boost the cattle industry’s reputation. What is the AFBFA? What does this program teach? Again, this is a USDA-sponsored checkoff program.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Drought has affected pastures, but small-grain cereals may provide forage for cattle herds.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40%. This delivery method works for cattle on pasture, yet still provides significant reductions in methane emissions.

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UnderstandingAg

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Instead, lets talk about cattle and making money.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A study conducted by researchers and policy experts at George Washington University found 20% of cattle marketed as “raised without antibiotics” to have been treated with antibiotics. This raises immediate questions about the antibiotic claim. You would think that fixing this situation requires mandatory regulation, not voluntary.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 21, 2024

Continuing education units available to participants The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program on April 5. Read More → The post Virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program set April 5 appeared first on AgriLife Today. The online program will run from 8:30 a.m.-3

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. Swallows dive overhead feasting on the flies hovering over the backs of the cattle. The first question to ask is: do you really need to take on the work of establishing cover crops in pastures? Sorghum-sudan pasture.

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West Texas Livestock

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This need is because, during this time, most of your tame pasture forages go into dormancy. Maintaining an adequate protein level in the diet is vital for your cattle. It is needed to […] The post Skyrocket cattle growth with protein tubs and smart feeding appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Digital agriculture, forage systems, beef cattle genetics featured topics The Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Beeville will host a field day Nov. 2 featuring a broad overview of new technology used in beef cattle production systems. The post AgriLife Research field day to cover new tech in cattle systems Nov.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Obviously, we’re not going to change patient behavior. in [one] hospital stay.”

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 24, 2024

Good winter management practices contribute to healthy and productive cattle and keep feed costs reasonable. Of course, the requirements depend […] The post These are the fall tips to have better cattle appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Have a separate bull pasture. Always invest in good cattle-handling facilities. Understand risk insurance programs such as Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance and Livestock Risk Protection (LRP). The post 10 Tips for Mitigating Risk on Your Cattle Operation appeared first on ProAg. Add 50% extra hay inventory.

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ATTRA

JUNE 11, 2024

Here in Arkansas where I live and raise cattle, goats, laying hens, and a few ducks, the summer temperatures can be punishing. When doing managed grazing of cattle, sheep, or goats, this can mean making sure part of each paddock includes some trees. For example, sheep and goats tolerate heat better than cattle, as a rule.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A wheat pasture is a valuable resource for many cattle operations. This plant is a valuable source of high-quality forage when most other forages are low in quantity and quality.

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West Texas Livestock

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

When people hear ‘grass tetany,’ they usually think of spring – lush grasses, green pastures, and cows grazing happily. However, it can also happen when cattle are fed harvested forages like silage or hay. But tetany can sneak up on you even in winter when you feed your cows hay or silage.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri.

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West Texas Livestock

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This need is because, during this time, most of your tame pasture forages go into dormancy. Maintaining an adequate protein level in the diet is vital for your cattle. Protein supplements are often needed during the fall and winter months. When this happens, things like their protein content will go down.

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 16, 2024

Along with a new season comes a further need for supplementation for your pasture cattle. Though the weather may not feel like it, temps are still in the 100s with no end in sight here; the fall season is almost upon us. The soon-to-be-changing weather reminds us of the changing season.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The cattle herd is a beautiful mix of Limousin, Angus, black Hereford and Simmentals, watched over by a Belgian Blue Limousin cross bull with a muscle definition that would have him win any body building championship. The feed was stored in old barns and had to be manually filled into sacks before it could be distributed to the cattle.

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ATTRA

APRIL 2, 2024

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.

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ATTRA

MARCH 31, 2024

Research from the University of California, Davis, published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science , sheds light on better managing cattle grazing behavior. A two-year study of cattle fitted with GPS collars showed that some individuals had more grazing pattern variability, regardless of age or stage of pregnancy.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

The following is an extract from Marianne Landzettel’s new book, The Sustainable Meat Challenge: How to graze cattle, slaughter humanely and stay profitable. Here, Marianne writes about the experience of a number of farmers in Germany, who discuss the most humane methods for handling and slaughter, on pasture and amongst the herd.

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 15, 2023

Along with a new season comes a further need for supplementation for your pasture cattle. Though the weather may not feel like it, temps are still in the 100s with no end in sight here, the fall season is almost upon us. The soon-to-be-changing weather reminds us of the changing season.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Justin Morris Has your pasture been plagued by poor plant growth? Does water pond on the surface of your pasture either during or right after a rain or irrigation event? Or does water run off your pasture to the point that it leaves behind ugly scars of erosion or floods out other areas that are lower in the landscape?

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here is a link to a video that talks about assessing pasture soil health using these tools. First, locate an area of the pasture that seems representative of the whole pasture. An 18-inch-long slice of soil positioned horizontally on a pasture to make it easier to look at soil structure and rooting depth.

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