A team of Kansas State University watershed specialists has revised a publication with tips on safeguarding the state’s water resources while providing grazing animals with the water they need. The ...
More than 50 producers from the area attended a Livestock Watering Strategies Workshop hosted by a duo of Saskatchewan ...
Moving livestock from field to field to lessen the impact of their grazing practices is slowly taking hold, and some proponents say new federal funding coupled with better outreach could get more ...
In an Oklahoma State University rancher webinar, Paul Beck, associate professor of animal science at OSU, discussed the controversial concept of which is better—continuous grazing versus rotational ...
Destocking is reducing livestock numbers worldwide, changing land use, nature balance, and future grazing decisions.
Having access to good-quality water is one of the limiting factors for cattle in most grazing systems. “During a drought, this becomes an even greater challenge for producers as water sources decrease ...
Regarding “Booming Farms, Poisoned Wells” (page one, Jan. 19): Today’s agricultural landscape is locked in to the confined livestock feeding operations that are contaminating rural wells. The policy, ...
From the Indiana Forage Council (IFC) and Purdue Extension agriculture and natural resources, the Indiana Grazing Schools will start in August. Livestock producers will gain hands-on training in ...
Many people think that wildernesses, those beautiful, wild areas designated by Congress under the 1964 Wilderness Act, are off-limits to grazing by cattle and sheep. Unfortunately ...
For decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock ...
STREETER, N.D. — A large, longstanding feedlot in North Dakota until recent years was using only a wooden chute for processing cattle, says Lisa Pederson, livestock specialist for NDSU Extension. They ...
Tucked away from humans in hard-to-reach places, hundreds of artificial water catchments—AWCs, also known as guzzlers—dot the arid Southwest landscape, collecting rainwater for wildlife to drink.