AMARILLO -- What a pasture should look like -- whether a waving sea of grass or one with diverse vegetation -- depends on a cattleman's final goal and actions taken before rain falls. "With the rains ...

Market forces may tell beef producers to increase herd numbers. Experienced ranchers, however, approach that advice with caution, making sure they have adequate pasture and rangeland to support the ...

“Management strategies are personal and need to be ‘zip code-specific’ in the pasture assessments of forage utilization, hay, overseeding, fertilization, that must be made,” he said. “Concurrent, ...

Anaplasma marginale is the causative agent for bovine anaplasmosis (BA) and Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causative agent for heartwater, 2 devastating diseases of cattle. BA is common in the United ...

Read the most recent Tennessee Crop Weather report and the numbers are clear: The state is dry, the quality of pastures is poor, and it has agriculture leaders worried about the state's biggest ...

“Now is the time to prepare forage and cattle for the fall and winter grazing season,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Proper management of cattle and ...