Sorghum is a productive and versatile annual crop used worldwide for livestock feed. Until now, the plant, which originated in the tropics, has done best in warmer regions with longer growing seasons ...

Forage crops and pastures provide feed for grazing livestock. Quality forage is necessary to provide nutrients in rations to keep livestock healthy and productive. Purdue Extension created an ...

University of Missouri Extension specialists urge producers to closely watch cattle grazing pastures with Johnson grass and other sorghum species. Cattle producers in several drought-stressed parts of ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

A University of Nevada, Reno researcher is aiming to make a major discovery in global sorghum cultivation. Her preliminary research suggests that she has developed sorghum varieties having big enough ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - This time of year, when the sun is bearing down and our perennial pastures begin to show signs of fatigue, more and more cattle producers are looking for ways to maintain both ...

Missouri agriculture officials are urging producers to monitor cattle grazing after a string of suspected poison deaths. Farmers throughout the state have reported cattle deaths after grazing in ...

Fall hay harvest continued, and some winter pastures were planted. Victoria County reported some cattle losses in bottomland along the Guadalupe River. Plowing and stalk destruction resumed. Livestock ...

DETROIT LAKES — The 57 cow-calf pairs on the Tim and Angie Lehrke farm near Ogema spend almost all their time outside, all year round. They are moved every few days among a half-dozen areas of grazing ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average year of ...

Welcome to “the last bite,” an end-of-week food and ag roundup from the Minnesota Star Tribune. Reach out to business reporter Brooks Johnson at brooks.johnson@startribune.com to share your news and ...