Establishing a winter cereal for grazing next spring will allow producers to delay pasture turnout, giving drought-stressed pastures more time to recover.

Weaning is a good time to consider enrolling in an age- and source-verification program.

Agricultural producers should do tax planning before the end of the year.

Mitigation strategies can help protect homes, farmsteads, livestock and stored grain.

Short- and long-term agricultural planning price projections for North Dakota are available from NDSU.

Drought has lowered the quality of water available to livestock in parts of North Dakota.

NDSU’s 2008 sheep report includes research on sheep embryos, artificial insemination, nutrition and distillers grains as feed.

Review and implement biosecurity protocols to reduce disease transmission from migrating wild birds to domestic flocks.