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.
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.
If you're harvesting cover crops, here's how you might use them in pasture. Or consider this as the beginning of a plan to have your livestock spend more time in pasture in the winter, and less time being fed by you.
We like free things, and while this isn't exactly free since you'll have to add the legumes, it's a good way to add some forage and some fertility to your pastures.
Want to take advantage of all the forage growing in ditches and along roadways? Be sure that it doesn't come with herbicides that could damage broadleaf plants in your fields or pastures.
