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Bottom Line: Contact your local Farm Service Agency Office. Disaster assistance programs, https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/disaster-assistance-program/index. Livestock Forage Program and maps, https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/disaster-assistance-program/livestock-forage/index. Feeding with Limited Hay: https://www.cherokee.k-state.edu/crops-livestock/ KSU Forage Management in Drought Series

In this issue… Be Sure to Register for the Alfalfa Intensive Training Seminar (AITS) Today! Five Alfalfa Research Projects Funded Through NIFA’s ASAFS Just click on the headline above to start reading, or here for the entire newsletter

TLA Downey Ranch Tour October 13, 2022 — 11:30am Location: Wamego, KS Event Cost: FREE Join TLA and KGLC for the second ranch tour of the year at the Downey Ranch near Wamego, KS! A FREE Lunch will be provided during the … Continue reading →

Forage and cattle management considerations for this fall and into the next year will be the emphasis of a series of meetings planned across the state to help producers make decisions given limited on-farm forage production and high feed costs.  … Continue reading →

High fertility prices this year have caught our attention more so than in past years. Growing and producing alfalfa provides an opportunity  to manufacture your own nitrogen for a following crop. Alfalfa stands taken out at an appropriate stage of … Continue reading →

By Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist, Cow-Calf Corner Winter is coming.  Drought, deteriorating pasture conditions and short hay inventories in Oklahoma and the surrounding states of Texas, Missouri and Kansas, has most cow-calf operations … Continue reading →

Alfalfa will quit growing after the first hard freeze (when temperatures reach below 26°F), which in Kansas occurs on average around October 15, but can be as early as October 1 or late as November 1. The decision should be … Continue reading →

Due to the drought, forage production and hay supplies have been negatively affected, to the point that hay prices keep moving up and producers are resorting to baling corn stalks just to be able to feed their livestock. In many parts … Continue reading →

To be successful in dual-purpose systems, wheat varieties require traits that may be overlooked in grain-only systems. These traits include fall forage yield, date of first hollow stem, grazing recovery potential, resistance to viral diseases transmitted when the crop is … Continue reading →