Controlling Cool-Season Invaders
October 23, 2009
Cheatgrass, downy brome, bluegrass, smooth brome and other cool-season plants have invaded many warm-season grass pastures and rangeland. This invasion shifts good grazing away from summer and toward spring when most folks have plenty of pasture anyway.
Adding Legumes to Pastures
October 23, 2009
Adding legumes to hay meadows and cool-season pastures is the best way to increase forage quality and animal performance from these forages. Legumes add protein and are readily consumer and digested by animals. Legumes also make their own nitrogen, which means fertilizer costs may decrease.
CW 09-10-23 USDA: Cattle on Feed
October 27, 2009
Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained almost 2.2 million cattle on feed on October 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office. The inventory was up 3% from last year.
Placements in feedlots during September totaled 550,000 head, the same as last year.