Watch: Like a cowboy’s therapy: The Green River Drift’s 70-mile cattle drive
There’s a group of stubborn men and women in Wyoming who every spring push thousands of cows along the same 70-mile route their ancestors pioneered 125 years ago. This throwback…
Read More...USDA launches first phase of soil carbon monitoring efforts through Conservation Reserve Program
The USDA is investing $10 million in a new initiative to sample, measure and monitor soil carbon on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres to better quantify the climate outcomes of the program.
Read More...Are your cattle heat-tolerant?
Heat stress negatively affects animals’ performance, including their milk production, growth rate, and fertility. Producers often select their breeding livestock for productivity gains. As many Western regions experience hotter and…
Read More...Saving the Great Plains with prescribed fire, mixed grazing
Ranchers in the Great Plains are under increasing stress due to changing environmental conditions and subsequent losses of rangelands to woody plants, but a relatively new management approach shows promise in…
Read More...Digital data drives better soil management
When we think about limited resources in agriculture, water is normally the first that springs to mind. The bad news is that just like water, soil is a finite resource…
Read More...CO2 release test can help assess soil health
American scientists have found that measuring the amount of carbon dioxide that is released after wetting a sample of dry soil and letting it sit for one day is a…
Read More...3 strategies to reduce cow herds’ environmental hoofprints
Reducing your cow herd’s environmental “hoofprints” in the pasture can often lead to money savings and increased efficiencies for the producer. This was the key takeaway from beef sustainability research…
Read More...Grassland Conservation Reserve Program acres grow to more than 2.5 million
Landowners and agricultural producers enrolled more than 2.5 million acres of grassland in the 2021 Grassland Conservation Reserve Program, double the number of acres they enrolled last year, the U.S.…
Read More...High-tech ‘brand’ to track cattle information
The cattle industry captures a lot of information about the animals being raised — birth weights, feed intake, rates of gain and more. A new partnership is looking at ways…
Read More...Climate programs will be voluntary, incentive-based, says USDA nominee
The USDA’s climate mitigation initiatives will be built on a simple rule: “If they don’t work for producers and landowners, they’re not going to work for the climate,” said Robert…
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