grazing covers

USDA RMA Allowing Growers to Hay, Graze or Chop Covers & Still Receive Prevent Planting Payments

December 2, 2021 | Posted in Grazing

Source: USDA Risk Management Agency

RMA added this flexibility starting with the 2021 crop year as part of a broader effort to encourage producers to use cover crops, an important conservation and good farming practice.

2021 Fall National Cover Crop Summit

Profitably Grazing Cattle on Cover Crops

A Kansas cattle rancher and a specialist from South Dakota State University share insights on how to leverage cover crops as cattle feed at the 2021 Fall National Cover Crop Summit

October 26, 2021 | Posted in Grazing

Transitioning from harvesting crops using a combine to only using cattle is not an easy task, says CJ Blew, a cattle rancher from Castleton, Kan. His family’s 24,000-acre cow-calf operation has improved cattle health and performance since switching 3,000 acres of irrigated dryland cropland to paddocks for grazing cover crops.

[Video] Iowa Growers Share Why They Use Cover Crops

October 12, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In this video from Iowa Learning Farms, hear from Iowa growers discussing cover crop management, growing cover crops for seed, and grazing covers.

[Podcast] Watch for Toxicity When Grazing Covers

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University. Meehan will discuss current forage production levels and conditions despite drought conditions, how growers can prevent overgrazing, the importance of grazing fields at appropriate growth stages and more.

August 25, 2021 | Posted in Grazing

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Miranda Meehan, North Dakota State University. Meehan will discuss current forage production levels and conditions despite drought conditions, how growers can prevent overgrazing, the importance of grazing fields at appropriate growth stages and more.

Grazing Covers Can Benefit the Bottom Line

January 4, 2021 | Posted in Grazing

Source: AgriLife Today

Growing dual-purpose wheat for both grazing and grain production is an important agricultural practice in the Southern Great Plains. But of late, more Texas Rolling Plains producers want to know if alternative systems to dual-purpose wheat, such as grazing cover crops, can bring additional value. Read more in this article from AgriLife Today.

[Podcast] Grazing Covers Can Help Livestock Producers Save Money

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Yetter Equipment, features an interview with Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist and Grazing Specialist for Indiana. Shelton discusses challenges growers must tackle when grazing cover crops, how to use cover crops to extend the grazing season, how growers can fit grazing into a crop rotation system, and more.

October 21, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Yetter Equipment, features an interview with Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist and Grazing Specialist for Indiana. Shelton discusses challenges growers must tackle when grazing cover crops, how to use cover crops to extend the grazing season, how growers can fit grazing into a crop rotation system, and more.

[Podcast] Enhancing the Value of Covers with Livestock

Jon Stevens, a grower from Rock Creek, Minn., is looking to capture the value of cover crops by grazing cattle on a 30-acre paddock seeded with grasses and cereals.

October 1, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

Jon Stevens, a grower from Rock Creek, Minn., is looking to capture the value of cover crops by grazing cattle on a 30-acre paddock seeded with grasses and cereals. Find out how he intends to try to rotate in corn within 3 years to capture in-field nitrogen.

Worried About Nitrates When Grazing Cover Crops?

September 7, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

Source: University of Nebraska Extension

Planting cover crops after severe wind or hail damage to crops is becoming increasingly common. Often growers are planting species that have been used as forages for many years with the thought that they may be grazed. Read more in this article from the University of Nebraska.

Feeding Off No-Till, Cover Crop Profitability

Tiffany Cattle Co. separates itself from the herd with a focus on grazing cover crops to improve soil health economically.

By John Dobberstein posted on July 23, 2018 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

When Shawn and Shane Tiffany took over the former Black Diamond feed yard in 2007 it wasn’t in terrible shape, mostly because of manure applications that kept organic matter in the soil. But after going to a cover crop field day 8 years ago, the brothers didn’t want to just settle.