Watch the CLAAS 970 forage harvester as it efficiently processes whole crop rye. See this impressive machine tackle the harvest with precision and power, making the job look effortless.

When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility that makes it easy to love. Agronomy experts at the University of Vermont, North Dakota State University and the ...

One of the most economical ways to raise beef cattle is to use standing forage as the primary feed source. In areas where soils are tillable, a year-round grazing program ...

Annual ryegrass, a cool-season forage, often is utilized by livestock producers for winter grazing, said Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist in Overton.

Annual ryegrass in the pasture—if you love it, keep it. If you hate it…well, that may be a problem. A cool season grass, annual ryegrass has very good forage quality for early grazing and is ...

Nebraska Extension Forage Specialist Bruce Anderson says planting the wrong rye species can be an expensive mistake. Botanically, annual ryegrass and Italian ryegrass plants are similar to cereal rye.

It’s been a good start to cereal harvest, with forage rye now safely into the clamps before the end of June. Unfortunately, the cold spring and lack of moisture had a detrimental effect on yield ...

If a farmer had planted rye as a cover crop in the fall of 2022, and the 2023 is wet, and planting is delayed or uncertain, Karki said it is the field planted to rye would be the best seedbed ...

When growers add cover crops, it's important to select and manage the crop according to the primary objective for the crop.

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- In the Upper Plains, it might not be economical, or even practical, to plant another grain crop during the growing year. But it might be in the producer's interest to consider a ...

University of Idaho Extension researchers see promise in hybrid rye and teff as potential forage crop options that could fill important niches for Magic Valley farmers ...