Pasture and Forage Minute: Grazing with the Weather
Precipitation and temperature play major roles in pasture productivity, and knowing how to adjust grazing to match current conditions is key. Are you shifting your management to meet recent weather?
Spanish:Pasture and Forage Minute: Poisonous Pasture Plants
While generally not as problematic in Nebraska compared to other western states, poisonous plants can exact their toll on livestock enterprises, and many times the losses are unrecognized.
Spanish:Managing Risk with Annual Forages
Annual forages are a useful tool to help manage risk. From a crop management standpoint, they can be used to manage erosion risk and build more resilient soil profiles. From a livestock management standpoint, annual forages can provide a valuable source of additional feed resources. They can serve an important role in a cattle producer’s drought management plan and overall strategy for controlling feed costs.
Spanish:Cattle Markets React to USDA Reports: Implications for Risk Management
This article was first published in the June 2021 issue of The Nebraska Cattleman magazine.
Spanish:Quality of Forage and Impacts on Intake and Animal Performance
As we progress into summer, forage quality can rapidly change depending on factors like rainfall, temperature, etc. A good example of the dynamic interaction of rainfall and forage quality is shown in Table 1. In the Sandhills, 2002 and 2018 were drastically different in total precipitation; however, forage quality driven by forage growth and maturity in terms of crude protein were very similar in a drought or wet rainfall year. Understanding these relationships is important in making proactive management decisions.
Spanish:Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory Open House sponsored by Elanco
The 22st annual University of Nebraska–Lincoln Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory (GSL) Open House will be held on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. This year’s Open House will be a hybrid format with our traditional in-person event held at GSL along with being live streamed online webinar. The online webinar will only cover the morning sustainability topics.
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