Planting a cover crop like sorghum-sudangrass, a hybrid of the sorghum and sudangrass plants, is a natural way to improve your soil. Cover crops are commonly grown to address poor or nutrient-depleted ...

Livestock producers should be cautious when grazing cattle on crops in the sorghum family immediately following a frost, says Dave Fischer, University of Illinois Extension dairy educator. “Sudangrass ...

Cover crops are unsung heroes for farmers and vegetable gardeners around the world, thanks to the incredibly long list of benefits they provide to the garden. Apart from reducing soil erosion, adding ...

University of Missouri Extension specialists urge producers to closely watch cattle grazing pastures with Johnson grass and other sorghum species. Cattle producers in several drought-stressed parts of ...

DOVER, Minn. — Alan Bedtka has experienced the financial and environmental benefits of incorporating livestock with a cropping operation on his farm in southeast Minnesota. "We do crops and pasture, ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

Livestock owners need to be aware that frost and freezing weather can result in some forage species becoming toxic with regard to livestock consumption. The issue is that some forage species contain ...

Producers continue to harvest hay to replace the deficit caused by the 2012 drought. The management challenge when harvesting hay in the fall is getting the crop dry enough to safely bale with shorter ...

A tropical grass seems like an unlikely fit for Prince Edward Island, but sorghum Sudan grass is growing in popularity when it comes to preventing disease build-up by rotating other crops through the ...

John Deere, Olathe, Kansas, has launched the weave automation for select round balers that helps streamline the baling process. With this automation, the operator simply places the windrow between the ...