Planting

There are times when seed buyers simply buy the “old standby.” They’ve grown it for years; their livestock manages just fine and buyers seem satisfied. So why fix what isn’t broken? Don’t rock the boat.

Winter triticale for forage is expanding in the Northeast as fast as they can produce the seed. Dealers have sold out each of the past six years in spite of increasing supply.

Football isn't the only fall activity with field goals. After silage harvest, cover crops just make a lot of sense. They can:

Where there are cattle, there is corn silage. When we talk about corn silage in Wisconsin, we are talking about a very serious topic.

Statewide, over 850,000 acres of corn are ensiled as silage each year.

Click here to read a question submitted by a reader regarding inoculant sources for native species.

Legumes play a unique role in the production of high-quality forages and pastures (Figure 1).

The severe drought of 2012 has left many pastures in poor shape and needing to be re-established.

Rather than reseeding with the same forage species eliminated by the drought, native grasses such as big bluestem, indiangrass and switchgrass should be considered as alternatives.