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Drought and miles of degraded fences allowed cattle to wander onto the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico, putting ranchers at odds with preserve managers.

Due to their rapid spread and persistence controlling sericea lespedeza and blackberries only gets more difficult and expensive as they become more established in your pastures.

It’s the right time to be scouting and managing multiflora rose in your pasture.

A wide variety of thistles can be seen everywhere this summer and appear to be in abundant supply.

Another component of this cycle occurs during the summer season. It is the emergence of warm-season weeds.

Hay season is winding down for some cattle producers—because there isn’t much of it to cut. But, regardless of the dire hay situation many are facing, rain for the Plains on the way.

One of the most important practices that any forage producer can incorporate into their program is adding legumes to grass pastures and hayfields. 

To accelerate alfalfa research and cultivar development, scientists at the Noble Research Institute developed the Alfalfa Breeder’s Toolbox, a web-based portal to allow alfalfa breeders and researchers share data.

There have been several inquiries from landowners in central Nebraska concerning damage to pasture and hay meadows from grubs.

If recent rain greens up your pasture so it grows enough to graze, will you succumb to the temptation?

Clemson researchers are teaming with area farmers to learn how to grow alfalfa with bermudagrass to increase forage quality.