Wet springs and dry summers made 2025 a tough year for new alfalfa stands. Learn how to assess poor emergence, manage ...

As fall approaches, both alfalfa and grass hay crops need to be properly prepared for the upcoming winter. Hay fields should be thoroughly evaluated in late summer or early fall to determine which ...

Spring is often thought of as the most common time to establish alfalfa and many other perennial species in Montana. However, there are opportunities at other times of the year to achieve high success ...

My mind was wandering the other day as I was enjoying one of our beautiful North Dakota summer days, and I started thinking about how we are in August. How many more of these nice warm days do we have ...

Food plots are becoming an annual ritual for the nation’s whitetail hunters and land managers, and the yearly conundrum of “what should I plant?” can be vastly simplified if you devote at least a ...

The Southwest United States continues to endure a “megadrought,” a term used to describe drought conditions lasting at least two decades. As a result, the question of why we grow certain crops in the ...

Nigeria’s farmer-herder conflict is often framed as a security crisis. It is also a feed crisis. If cattle have access to reliable, nutritious fodder, roaming would decline, farm damage would reduce, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reminds agricultural producers with perennial forage crops of an option to report their acreage once, without having to report that acreage in subsequent years, as ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nitrogen acquisition is one of the most important factors for plant production, and N contribution from biological N2 fixation can reduce the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims Extensive knowledge of perennial forage root systems is essential, given their critical role in belowground C input. Methods Root length ...