Skip to main content

Articles

fall armyworm with distinctive white and dark green stripes and dots across body

Published: September 5, 2025

Fall Armyworms in Pastures, Alfalfa, Small Grains, Cover Crops and Lawns

Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Robert Wright - Extension Entomologist, Melissa Bartels - Former Extension Educator, Nathan Mueller - USDA NRCS, State Soil Health Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Brad Schick - Former Extension Educator, Daren Redfearn - Associate Professor Agronomy | Updated by: Matheus Ribeiro - Assistant Extension Educator, | Updated by: David Wangila - Extension Educator, | Updated by: Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

Front-end loader piling freshly chopped corn silage in a large outdoor silage pile under a clear blue sky.

Published: September 3, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Winter Annual Forages, Verbal Lease Agreements and Corn Silage Pricing

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator

Tractor harvesting corn silage with a forage chopper blowing chopped material into a wagon as plants mature.

Published: August 18, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Corn Silage Kernel Processing, Cover Crop Grazing and Pasture Weeds

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

Cattle drinking from a stock tank with visible algae floating on the water’s surface.

Published: August 14, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Silage Inoculants, Fall Armyworms, and Managing Stock Tank Algae

Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator

Center pivot sprinkler irrigates a lush green alfalfa field under a clear blue sky as plants mature.

Published: August 5, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Boosting Water Efficiency and Feed Value

Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

tractor harvests hay in pasture

Published: July 3, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Optimizing Summer Forages

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

cattle grazing sorghum-sudangrass field

Published: May 30, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Getting Ahead of Summer Grazing Challenges

Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

foxtail millet in grass meadow

Published: May 12, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Selecting Summer Forage, Managing Wheatlage and Grasshoppers

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator

cattle grazing pasture

Published: May 9, 2025

Consider Grazing Wheat and Delaying Turn-out on Drought-stressed Pastures

Aaron Berger - Beef Extension Educator

center pivot irrigating alfalfa field

Published: May 6, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Alfalfa Irrigation, Turn-out Timing and Equipment Maintenance

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

alfalfa harvester in field

Published: April 28, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Tips on Flash Grazing, Double Cropping and First Cutting Alfalfa

Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

cattle grazing pasture near wheat

Published: April 22, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Budgeting Forage During Drought, Wheat Grazing vs. Grain Value

Plus Insights on Army Cutworm Scouting in Alfalfa

Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

alfalfa field on bright day

Published: April 14, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Spring Grass Management — Fertilizer, Weed Control and Grazing

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

cattle grazing spring pasture

Published: April 11, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Grass Tetany, Spring Grass Seeding

Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

nebraska farm with pond and haybales

Published: April 1, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Insights on 2025 Land Values and Rental Rates, Grass-Alfalfa Mixtures

Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

cattle drink from stream during drought

Published: February 28, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Preparing for Drought

Hay Test TDN Values Decoded

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

radish and cereal cover crop

Published: January 9, 2025

Cover Crop Termination and Cornstalk Grazing Recommendations

Pasture and Forage Minute

Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

Corn residue in field

Published: November 12, 2024

Pasture And Forage Minute: Cornstalk Quality After Rain, Storing Hay to Reduce Loss

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Large group of people surround Nathan Mueller during live rainfall simulation

Published: September 25, 2024

Nebraska Soil Health School: An Accomplishment of Goals Through Collaboration

Alfalfa field during summer

Published: September 3, 2024

Pasture and Forage Minute: Fall Planting Alfalfa and Winter Annual Forages

Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist