Other Forage

Salinity is a major soil degradation problem throughout the world and results in considerable economic losses to the agricultural sector.

When it comes to your land and cattle, you’re always looking for new ways to improve them. You wouldn’t have a successful business if you didn’t.

This is a story of agriculture in Britain hundreds of years ago, with some applications for us today. The year was 1750. The population of Britain was estimated at 5.5 million. It had reached this level several times over the former 1,000 years but had never surpassed it.

High-moisture corn can be a valuable alternative for harvesting corn grain for dairy and beef cattle.

Forages are the foundation of all ruminant diets. The fermentation of forages in the rumens of cows, goats and sheep (and the hindgut of horses) is necessary for both meeting the energy and protein needs as well as maintaining a healthy population of microbes in the rumen or hindgut.

Protecting water in the agricultural context means not only the most obvious large and vulnerable bodies of water, such as the Chesapeake, the Great Lakes or the Gulf of Mexico, but also the smallest streams and the groundwater closest to your farm that aren’t distinguished along property lines.