MANAGEMENT

As forage growers continue to search for animal feed alternatives that are affordable and healthy, many are turning to grazing livestock on cover crops.

In the near future, the infrastructure of the power companies will not be able to handle the load. As we all know, it seems we are all at the end of the line when it comes to power.

I have often wondered, and have been asked several times, about the dollar value of poultry litter products as they relate to the cost of traditional rock fertilizers. I myself have used poultry litter in the past, with mixed results.

In the first article of this series (Picking apples off the grazing tree: When grazing isn't profitable), we went over extended-season grazing at a conceptual level to help understand that as we push extended-season grazing further into the winter,

Cori Wittman is the daughter of Dick Wittman, owner of a 20,000-acre dryland crop, range cattle and timber operation in northern Idaho and private business management consultant (Wittman Consulting).

“More advertising in agriculture should be directed at women. They’re making a lot of the financial decisions on farms.”