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‘Super haylage’—with a NDF undigested 30 score of less than 15%--means more milk.

Recent data reveals that Earth’s groundwater supplies may be under some serious strain.

Figuring out how to grow, harvest, store and feed-out good hay crops and corn silage is key to managing your dairy’s risk.

Experts will help ranchers consider the importance of mineral nutrition for their cattle herds at a special one-day symposium.

EQIP funds can provide cost share funds for conservation practices such as a water trough system in pastures to allow additional cross fencing and sensitive wetland protection.

Greek yogurt maker Chobani says a newly installed reverse-osmosis filtration system at its south-central Idaho plant will reduce the company’s consumption of water by 20 percent.

As Greg Dell reviews the three years he and his family have spent developing a succession plan for their Westminster, Md., farm, he remembers how overwhelmed everyone was by the process in the beginning.

Half of the Earth’s land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate.

Such crop switching is one sign of a sweeping transformation going on in California--the nation’s biggest agricultural state by value--driven by a three-year drought that climate scientists say is a glimpse of a drier future.

Governor Jerry Brown and California Democratic lawmakers enlisted business support of a $7.2 billion plan composed mostly of new bonds for water storage and delivery to drought-stricken cities and farms.