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Is It Residual or Is It Residue?

"Residue" and "Residual" may sound similar, but they provide very different services for your pasture's health. Jim explains the difference with tips for what you should be paying attention to.

How to Manage Pastures When Winter Isn’t Wintry

It's been a pretty mild winter for most of the U.S. and Canada. With that in mind, here are two perspectives on what's up with your pastures, and the management implications.

New Vaccine May Control Cattle Ticks

This story comes to us from the USDA Agriculture Research Service's AgResearch Magazine by ARS's Sandra Avant. The economic impact of cattle fever ticks, including...

Beginning Farming at the Dixon Place

Sometimes farming doesn't make sense from the outside. But if it makes sense from the inside, that might just be what counts.

Crabgrass is Good Forage

Improved forage crabgrass varieties are not weeds, but high-quality, high-producing forages that fit well from the Mid-Atlantic region through the Southeast. With good fertility...

A High-Forage Diet for A Better Bottom Line

For your herd, a high-forage diet can help your bottom line, but you should take care to use high-quality forage. Here's how to make a high-forage diet work for you.

Have Goat, Will Travel (And Make Money Too!)

In this excerpt from her book "Farms With A Future" Rebecca shares the story of a start-up farmer who created success by taking his product to the people.

Procrastinated Pasture

Sometimes a pasture just gets away from you. That's what happened to Victor this summer. But it's all good, and he'll tell you why!

Healthy Soils Hold Water, But Not Too Much

Here's how to make sure your soils hold enough water, but not too much.

Transferring Farm Assets or Retiring From Farming: Tax Tips When You’re Selling

Farmers and others interested in maintaining the working landscape need to plan carefully in order for farms to be successfully transferred. This is true...

A Green Light for Post-fire Grazing

For folks grazing rangelands in the west, a fire can mean that public land managers will require them to keep their livestock off the range for 2 years. But research that shows that's not necessary for healthy rangelands. Check it out!

How to Get Your First Farm Loan

Here's what lenders are looking for and what you can expect as you go through the process of borrowing money from a bank. It's good information even for those who've gotten loans in the past.

Feeding 9 Billion People Starts with Rescuing Produce

Did you know that if the price of Florida tomatoes drops on a certain day, as much as 120,000 pounds of tomatoes heading from Mexico to the United States might be thrown into landfills? Here's how that's being changed in one border town.

Assess Alfalfa, Winter Cereal and Grass Stands for Reseeding Decisions

The snow has now receded and soils are beginning to warm enough to green up most hay fields and pastures, and it’s time to...

The Grass is Growing! And You Can Help!

Grass is growing. The grass is really growing! I get a little impatient sometimes waiting for spring to get here; then once it is here...

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