Meeting Post Calving Nutritional Needs Prepares Cows For Summer Grazing
As the post-calving period transitions into the breeding season, proper nutrition remains paramount to ensure reproductive success. Nutritional deficiencies or imbalances during this time can have significant implications for reproductive performance, including delayed estrus, reduced conception rates, and increased calving intervals, said Sam Wyffels, nutritionist.
Plant Species Differ In Benefits Of Cover Crops
“Long-term cover crop growers sometimes realize better yields of cash crops, and sometimes they find they’re able to use fewer chemical inputs,” according to Extension crops researchers. “Because they’re keeping living roots in the soil, the channels created by the roots help with water infiltration.”
Precautions Given When Conducting A Prescribed Prairie Burn
Whether ranchers will conduct a prescribed prairie burn this spring or after the growing season, advance preparations are key. Several professional sources have provided important pieces of burning advice.
Dressing Safely Important During A Prescribed Burn
Before conducting a prescribed burn to improve pastures or clear ditches or other areas, it is important to make sure everyone working around the fire is outfitted properly to help ensure their safety. Prepare firebreaks, have all the tools needed on site, and ensure the weather conditions are just right.
Woody Brush In Pastures Can Be Limited With Control Efforts
Burning, herbicides, and utilizing goats are among the options to help control woody brush in pastures. Rangeland and pastures can be taken over by buckbrush, Eastern red cedar, and honey locust.
Laws Vary On Upkeep Of Fences With Neighbors
The old adage, “Good fences make good neighbors,” has stood the test of time. A good boundary fence, also called a partition fence, has many benefits, especially marking the property line, as people generally stay on their side, said John Schwarz, who has done extensive study on fence laws.
Biomass Market Shows Growth Potential
Expanding the market for biomass-based products, which include furniture, bioplastics, and biofuels, would create new sources of revenue for the agricultural sector, USDA said. It recommends a broad-ranging effort by the government to encourage greater production.
Farmers’ Tax Liability To Rise As Tax Breaks Expire In 2025
Farmers would face an increased federal tax liability of billions of dollars following the expiration of Trump-era tax breaks in 2025, USDA economists said. The biggest impact, estimated at a combined $4.5 billion, would come from reduced income tax rates on individuals, an increased standard deduction, a cap on the deduction for state and local […]
Cattle Deaths Increase From Texas Wildfires
Estimates from recent wildfires in the Texas Panhandle “show more than 7,000 head of cattle died. The final number directly related to the fires could reach 10,000.
Midrange Tractors Hold Value For Now
As machinery manufacturers continue to rebound from early 2020s supply chain issues, the market has seen some interesting shifts.