COLUMBUS, Kan. - Feed costs for cattle during the four coldest months of the year can exceed grazing costs for the other eight months, said Dennis Elbrader, Cherokee County extension agent at Columbus ...

BROKEN BOW - Broken Bow rancher and cowboy poet R.P. Smith said drought in the last few years made things "go backward" real fast, so he started looking at what might work better for his operation.

DETROIT LAKES — The 57 cow-calf pairs on the Tim and Angie Lehrke farm near Ogema spend almost all their time outside, all year round. They are moved every few days among a half-dozen areas of grazing ...

BURLINGTON, N.D. (AP) -- Rancher Dave Herzig has been experimenting with livestock feed, and he thinks turnips may be the answer. "Turnips have 25 percent protein while grass is about 8 to 10 percent, ...

Sheep don’t graze like cattle — and that difference could be a major advantage. Kansas State University veterinarians Brad White and Todd Gunderson along with beef cattle nutritionist, Phillip ...

MITCHELL, S.D. -- While corn and soybeans are the dominant crops in South Dakota, Chris Nebelsick knows the importance of turnips and radishes. Although the practice isn't widespread, some local ...

NRCS Soil Scientist Dan Nath digs around in a hole in Tony Rossman's field to demonstrate his cover crops' root levels. This idea isn't very attractive for a human, but according to Eric Mousel of the ...

No form of cattle production is sustainable at current rates of consumption and production. Cattle production is a leading driver of the extinction crisis and causes more environmental destruction ...

GLENWOOD, Minn. -Dan Jenniges and Jess Berge planted cover crops this year, but the west central Minnesota farmers had very different outcomes. At a cover crop field day last week, Jenniges said a ...