Should I plant Summer Annual Forage Grasses? It’s never too early to be focused on the next potential forage stressor – Summer. In the Southeast we are no stranger to […]
Should I Plant Summer Annual Forage Grasses?
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Using Ionophores with Grazing Beef Cattle
What is an ionophore? An ionophore is a feed additive used in beef cattle rations to improve feed efficiency and animal gains. Ionophores improve fermentation characteristics in the rumen, which […]
How Much Does Your Hay Storage Cost?
Be careful how you answer that question. Cost and expense are two different things. Everyone worries about the expense of building barns for hay storage. Yes, barns are a big […]
Preventing Prussic Acid Poisoning. By Dr. John Andrae, Clemson University Extension Forage Specialist
A significant risk of grazing certain species of drought or frost-damaged forages is hydrocyanic acid poisoning. This is more commonly known as prussic acid or cyanide poisoning. While prussic acid […]
The U.S. Cattle Inventory Report: July 2015
The semi-annual U.S. Cattle Inventory Report was released on July 24, 2015 by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This report confirmed that U.S. herd expansion is continuing. The report […]