Fertilizing cool season pastures can help you take full advantage of recent spring rains. Grass growth is stimulated by nitrogen fertilizer just like other crops. One key to profitable fertilizing of ...

Any farmer worth their salt knows the importance of fertilizing a crop for optimal production. Often, this common knowledge stops at row crops or high value hay like alfalfa. Could a look at your ...

When visiting with cattle producers across southern Oklahoma and northern Texas, I often hear that commercial fertilizer is too expensive to purchase for their operations. These comments have come ...

Fertilizing cool season grass is something many producers do each year, but one should consider forage needs, the value of the forage, and fertilizer costs. Fertilization of smooth bromegrass pastures ...

Like other crops, pasture and hayland grass growth is stimulated by fertilizer. Nitrogen is the primary nutrient most commonly needed for grasses. However, phosphorous, potassium or sulfur also may be ...

My little hill farm in Royalton, Vermont—host to the Bob-White Systems micro dairy—is housed on 40 acres of badly-abused land. When my wife Wendy and I bought the farm in 2001, most of the old pasture ...

Making blanket recommendations on fall nitrogen fertilizer rates to pastures is difficult because of the variability in how forages are managed in the Fescue Belt. But University of Missouri Extension ...

Fertilizer prices have fallen in recent months. Unfortunately, so have cattle prices. Does it pay to fertilize bermudagrass pastures to increase carrying capacity in times such as these? To answer ...

Any farmer worth their salt knows the importance of fertilizing a crop for optimal production. Often, this common knowledge stops at row crops or high value hay like alfalfa. Could a look at your ...

Fertilizing warm-season grass is a practice some producers do, but one should consider forage needs, the value of the forage and fertilizer costs. Warm-season grasses are very efficient at using water ...