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
It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.
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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. For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. Runoff from U.S.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,
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
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
percent, and it’s concentrated in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys and used mostly for animal forage. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.” Ernie Klemm, forage manager at Konyn Dairy in San Pasqual Valley, has been dry-farming grains for 50 years—as food for cattle.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. During California’s recent drought, the state’s population of nearly 6,000 tule elk kept growing overall, but the some 10 percent that live in the seashore declined.
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