Producers Can Now Hay, Graze and Chop Cover Crops Anytime and Still Receive Full Prevented Planting Payment
Agricultural producers with crop insurance can hay, graze or chop cover crops for silage, haylage or baleage at any time and still receive 100 percent of the prevented planting payment.…
Read More...Trump roundups worked: Herds drop for first time in 9 years
(Subscription) The Bureau of Land Management’s aggressive Trump-era wild horse and burro roundup strategy, slammed by critics as cruel and unnecessary, apparently cut herd sizes on federal rangelands for the…
Read More...Mexico’s cowboys struggle to maintain traditional lifestyle
Baja’s vaqueros are battling against the encroachment of the modern world, climate change, and COVID-19.
Read More...New study shows how loss of drought-sensitive species could affect grasslands
A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how the health of a California grassland might be affected in a future with less biodiversity and…
Read More...Killing the Weed King: Could Groundbreaking Pollen Technology Control Palmer Amaranth?
Could Palmer amaranth, the king of resistant weeds and crippler of herbicides, be dethroned by its own sex drive? A herbicide-free technology is under testing and aims to attack pigweed with its…
Read More...Colorado ranchers are selling off cattle to survive another year of dried-up grass and parched soil
The Western Slope has suffered a drought three of the last four years, and by now, it’s taken a toll on farmers and ranchers that is both financial and emotional.…
Read More...A West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves
In this monthly recorded series, Dr. Matt Reeves – an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling – will analyze current rangeland fuel conditions across the west, with…
Read More...The Accrued Benefits of Adaptive Grazing
The problems of many current conventional grazing systems can be avoided by ecologically sensitive management of ruminants across the landscape. Wild ruminants, by the hundreds of millions, have existed for…
Read More...Alta Live: Ranchers Fighting Climate Change
Kent Reeves is part of a movement to fight climate change by repairing California’s native grasslands, provided he can rope his fellow ranchers and their cattle into the plan. Reeves and Alta…
Read More...Endangered Species Act listing proposed for lesser prairie-chicken
The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing federally protected status under the Endangered Species Act for two populations of the lesser prairie-chicken that occupy parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,…
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