Cover crops can provide good grazing material for farmers with both row crops and cattle. Many farmers have diversified operations with both row crop production and livestock. Integrating those ...

Live cattle futures set back a second day after hitting new near-term highs Monday and failing even though cash was at record levels. However, Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says he knows of ...

Cattle futures rallied Friday ahead of the USDA’s Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory Reports. Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says both live and feeder cattle futures had a nice recovery and ...

The agriculture industry has seen many changes in technology and productivity in the last few decades and some producers have chosen to focus on either crops or cattle. Farmers who specialize in ...

ALLISON, Iowa -Allison cattle producers Edward and Randal Johnson and Scott Bruns have been using cover crops to protect soil and extend forage supplies for several years. They shared their ...

U.S. cattle inventory hits a 75-year low, tightening supplies and driving higher beef prices and market volatility. Learn ...

NRCS Soil Scientist Dan Nath digs around in a hole in Tony Rossman's field to demonstrate his cover crops' root levels. This idea isn't very attractive for a human, but according to Eric Mousel of the ...

While some Kentucky schools and businesses shut their doors during and after the storm, farmers still had to go to work.

Kevin Barnes, NASS Associate Administrator, Hubert Hamer, NASS Administrator, Cindy Nickerson, OCE Deputy Chief Economist, and Mark Jekanowski, World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair at USDA (USDA ...

When a torrent of grasshoppers devoured more than 100,000 acres of grass pastures and rangeland three years ago in the state’s northeast, Mike McKoen felt bad for the cattle ranchers who took a ...

Farm owner Dave Lubben pulls a wagon Monday for earlage to be dumped at his farm in Monticello. Lubben and his family have to chop more corn to be used this winter because the drought has caused them ...