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Pasture and Range
Getting To Win-Win
Call it application of the law of unintended consequences. This time, though, the results were positive. Like most instances where good intentions produce...
Green death
Administration officials are out in force putting on the big sell regarding cap and trade. More formally known as the American Clean Energy and Security...
Obama To Sign 2-Million-Acre Wilderness ExpansionObama To Sign 2-Million-Acre Wilderness Expansion
Congress this week approved the largest expansion of the wilderness system in 15 years, bestowing federal wilderness protection to 2 million acres in nine states....
GPS-Based, Virtual Fencing Technology Granted License
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has granted a license to a Canadian firm interested in marketing a non-wire, virtual fencing technology linked to the global positioning system. ...
Bruce Anderson Offers Two Alfalfa Tips
Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist, offers the following tips on spring cultivation of established alfalfa, as well as fertilization advice. ...
Maximizing Marginal Pastures
Close your eyes and envision this lush, green fields heavy with grass and loaded with nutrition. If that's what you see without closing your eyes, count...
Manage Your Minerals
Greg Moore knows what it's like to manage on the edge. He runs 500 mother cows near Wagon Mound, NM country generously described as Calving is April and...
Two new grasses for Southern Plains
Meet “Verl” and “Chet,” two new forage-grass varieties engineered to provide year-round grazing...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...























