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Forage testing and inventory control will be critical with this year’s variable forages.

Recent research reinforced what was already known about lowering DCAD levels in prefresh diets, but also added some practical applications to producers’ toolboxes.

The pollinator project is an initiative in functional biodiversity—the idea that best management practices can support commercial agricultural practices and the environment at the same time.

Though agriculture has become increasingly volatile during the last decade and risk management has never been more critical to farm and ranch sustainability, farmers are lucky.

Dried distillers’ grains are familiar to livestock producers, who use them as feed. But an Alaska brewer has figured out a way to use them to make more beer.

Georgia wants more water. Here’s how they want to get it.

Corn stalks that don’t completely decompose during the winter interfere with spring planting but can a new cellulosic ethanol plant turn those tough cornstalks into cash?

No matter how much management, labor and fertilizer you apply, and regardless of the quality of seed you plant, it’s the soil that underpins how much food and fiber you produce.

Even though the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed rock removal on the Mississippi River earlier than expected, water levels remain precarious.

Jeremy Jack says the hardest part about being a young producer is when people underestimate what he can do with technology today.