Grasses and Grazing

Concepts about grazing management continue to evolve, but the fundamental principle of short grazing bouts followed by relatively long rest periods doesn’t change.

Cover crops, soil health, extended grazing and 13-way mixes are all buzzwords in the agronomic world today.

Whether grazing dairy or beef cattle, warm-season annual plants can provide nutrition during the hot months in midsummer when warm-season perennial plants go into semidormancy and lose most of their nutritive value.

Chuck Benhoff is confident he knows what his best agricultural investment ever was. A decision he made way back when, as best as either of us can recall, during the early 1990s.

Failure to control the feed bill can erode ranch profits very quickly, even to the point of bankruptcy. The most economical feed is normally forage standing in the pasture.

Growing winter forages, a great way to increase available inventory, maximizes the productivity of your land base. Fully one-third of sunlight received in temperate zones comes during the winter season.