“There are no real major changes when you grow canola,” Koehn said. “I mean, that's probably about the most attractive thing about it. You can either use a conventional drill, an air seeder, a planter ...

Planting cover crops such as brassicas and small grains during late summer or early fall is becoming a more common and accepted practice. Often these cover crops are grazed as a forage double crop.

FARGO - Drought-challenged dairy producers facing forage shortages may be able to feed their cows canola and related crops, provided they take certain precautions. "Recent rains were spotty, and ...

The Smith family captures value from cover crops twice—first as high-quality cattle feed and then as biological fuel for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A wide range of forage crops could help grain and livestock producers salvage some value from their fields once the drought-ravaged corn crop has been harvested - if soil ...

After corn silage comes off, dairy farmers will often consider seeding fields to winter rye as a cover crop. It’s an easy, ...

In this week's alfalfa/forage issue cover story, Field Editor Kylene Scott looks at all the problems wet conditions cause with hay.

A University of North Texas College of Science professor has moved researchers across the globe closer to understanding how to make condensed tannins in forage crops such as alfalfa, not only making ...

DR. STEBLER's well-known work, “Die besten Futterpflanzen,” has found a translator into English. A French translation is also before us. so that it is now available to everyone who speaks any one of ...

North Dakota State University’s North Central Research Extension Center located near Minot, has welcomed James Rogers as a North Dakota State University Extension forage crops production specialist.

A new study of honeybee exposure to pesticides finds that a widely used neonicotinoid drifts so far, and lasts so long, that planting “pollinator strips” of untreated forage may not be of much help to ...