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A partially eaten round hay bale sits beside a metal feeder ring in a muddy winter pasture with leafless trees in the background.

December 8, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Tips for Safe, Efficient Hay Feeding During Winter

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

Angus cattle graze corn residue field under a blue sky

December 2, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Partial Budgeting for Forage Changes, Grazing Bt Corn Residue

By Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Prescribed burn on farmland

November 17, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Corn Residue Grazing Impacts, Controlling Eastern Red Cedar

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

Close-up of ripe grain sorghum heads in a sunlit field, with golden leaves and warm evening light in the background.

November 10, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Winter Grazing Native Range and Standing Milo

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

Holstein cattle graze a grassy field beside a mature soybean field ready for harvest.

November 3, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Late Fall Rye Planting, Soybean Residue for Forage

By Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Black Angus cattle graze corn residue in a harvested field under a partly cloudy sky near a distant grain elevator.

October 28, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Nutrition, Disease Concerns for Crop Residue Grazing

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

Several cattle with reddish-brown coats and white faces grazing in a frosted pasture on a clear fall morning.

October 20, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Bloat and Prussic Acid When Grazing Fall Alfalfa, Sorghum

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

Beef cattle grazing in a dry fall pasture with one animal resting in the foreground as others graze in the distance.

October 14, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Stacking Insurance Programs to Manage Risk, Tips for Grazing Fall Forages

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator

Close-up of cereal rye ‘Elbon’ on the left and winter wheat on the right growing in dry, cracked soil at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center as plants mature.

Published: October 8, 2025 | Updated: August 27, 2026

Selecting the Right Winter Small Grain Cover Crop This Fall

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, David Scoby - Laboratory Research Manager, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Alfalfa regrowth emerging from recently cut stems after harvest, showing healthy green shoots as plants mature.

October 6, 2025

Fall Alfalfa Fertility: Setting Up for Stand Success

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Severely defoliated alfalfa field by fall armyworms visible on alfalfa stems throughout photo

October 6, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Fall Armyworm Recovery and Reducing Hay Storage Loss

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

male pheasant with bright plumage stands among corn stalk residue in a harvested field, with green grass and bare trees in the background.

September 29, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Controlling Cheatgrass, Grazing for Interseeding and Hunting Rights for Land Leases

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