Category Archives: Hay Clippings Blog

By Brianna Randall, NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife·Sep 15, 2021 Rex Schmidt and his wife have grazed cattle and farmed for 35 years near Greensburg, Kansas, where the hills break into prairie and birds are abundant in their green pastures. … Continue reading →

When: October 7th, 2021, 1:30 pm Where:  3.5 miles south and 1.5 miles east of the I-70 Westfall and 290th Road exit (exit 233). Caucasian old world bluestem comprised 51% of the vegetative cover of a large 240 acre pasture … Continue reading →

Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist OSU, COWCALF CORNER – A ranching operation is a sustainable forage production and utilization enterprise. With good management, forage is an extremely valuable renewable resource and represents the most … Continue reading →

The Joint International Grasslands and Rangelands Congress planned for Nairobi, Kenya will now be an all virtual meeting from 25-29 October 2021. Covid restrictions have changed original plans but a virtual meeting will be more convenient for rangeland and grassland … Continue reading →

To all stakeholders: Rising costs of testing and consolidation of forage seed companies have led to declining entries in public forage variety tests and many universities have discontinued their testing programs.  The remaining tests are also at risk of vanishing … Continue reading →

As we head into September, some producers are thinking about seeding winter cover crops in fields currently planted to corn. The successful establishment of winter cover crops is influenced by several factors that are discussed in a previous eUpdate (New … Continue reading →

By Sandy Johnson, Extension Beef Specialist, Colby KSU BeefTips – Many Kansas cattle operations rely on some type of harvested feed to use in the winter months and common among those sources is forage sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass and sudan.  Forages in sorghum … Continue reading →

By Justin Waggoner, Beef Systems Specialist, Garden City KSU BeefTips – As the forage in our pastures becomes more brown than green in appearance it is not uncommon to notice a few thin cows within the herd. As forage quality declines in … Continue reading →

In 2020, summer annual forage variety trials were conducted across Kansas near Garden City, Hays, and Scandia. All sites evaluated hay and silage entries. Companies were able to enter varieties into any possible combinations of research sites, so not all … Continue reading →