An Excel program can give producers a quick estimate of payments.

NDSU Extension specialists offer tips on preventing nitrate poisoning.

Ideally, alfalfa needs 500 growing degree days, or five to six weeks, before a killing frost to allow enough time for carbohydrate storage to occur.

Corn residue can help cut winter feeding costs for beef cattle.

NDSU’s dairy specialist offers alfalfa harvesting advice.

Producers have ways to help them determine when to harvest alfalfa.

Cattle and sheep are more susceptible to prussic acid poisoning than swine.

Moisture content at baling is the main factor in determining bale preservation and nutrient content over time.

Crop producers may be able to recoup some production costs by harvesting this year’s corn crop as silage.

Hay that has been rained on will suffer dry matter losses, losses in energy content and tends to have a bleached color with a loss of soluble vitamin content.