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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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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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmers Weekly A radical grazing technique is gathering pace which claims to maximise grassland production and rumen function by baring off pasture at the 3.5-leaf Total grazing” involves moving cattle four times a day, and grazing longer grass than conventional rotational grazing, but shorter than many regenerative approaches.

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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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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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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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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 5, 2024

Doug Ferguson takes a look at the thirsty cattle markets this week and gives a lesson in pasture management.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

beef cattle herd is the smallest since 1951. But the recent moisture in regions hit hard by drought is providing relief and an opportunity to rebuild.

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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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Western FarmPress

JUNE 5, 2024

Lease agreements can help with retirement and pasture recovery.

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ATTRA

MARCH 10, 2025

Advocates say wider adoption of silvopasture could help reduce deforestation in the Amazon, because it reduces the amount of land needed for cattle production. In a silvopasture system, trees can provide both dairy and beef cattle with feed and shade. In addition, the researchers found that cattle on silvopasture produced less methane.

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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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Real Agriculture

JUNE 12, 2023

Positive results of feeding canola meal to cattle is not new — the dairy industry is already a big fan of the protein supplement. But ongoing beef cattle research out of Saskatchewan is looking at the impact of supplementing heifers on pasture and how the practice might extend grazing sites in lower grass production years.

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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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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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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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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As temperatures drop, pastures go dormant, leaving forages unable to meet the nutritional demands of your animals. Winter brings a unique set of challenges for livestock producers.

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West Texas Livestock

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Before long, the ice and snow will melt away (if you get any), and your pastures will come alive with lush green forages. Spring weather might feel like a distant dream right now, but it’s just around the corner.

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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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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

There is a lot going on in the cattle markets, but its important to know the basics before you lose money in them.

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ProAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If you grow forage for grazing or haying, youve probably wondered whether Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is worth it. Essentially, its crop insurance for hay, whether your cattle graze on the acres or you bale your crop. Weather events can create expensive challenges for cattle producers. What is PRF insurance?

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

Land clearing to establish pastures throughout the forested regions of Australia is a major driver of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and poor water quality outcomes, and in the northern savannas hotter, larger fires and overgrazing has degraded the condition of land and impacted ecosystem functions.

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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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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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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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West Texas Livestock

MARCH 14, 2025

Providing a feed supplement to grazing cattle is essential because sometimes the natural forage just isn’t enough to meet their nutritional needs. When pasture grasses fall short, supplements help fill in the gaps so your animals can stay healthy and productive.

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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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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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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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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Look at the OS map for the area surrounding our farm in Highland Perthshire, and it is littered with Gaelic placenames related to the keeping of cattle and goats. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century.

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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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Real Agriculture

MAY 14, 2024

Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday with Lyndsey edition of RealAg Radio. Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Paul Hermans with Pioneer Seed Canada on when to why switching corn hybrids in late May can pay dividends; Robin Anderson with Canadian Agricultural Safety Association on the very first Kids FarmSafe Week; Stacey Domolewski with.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Before his regenerative transition, Bergler would come home from his work off the farm as a custom home builder and face the time-consuming chores associated with feeding cattle daily, spending hours baling hay, mixing feed, and hauling manure, all of which left little time for the luxury of family time. But were still here, he says.

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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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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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