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

Research indicates that soybean forage should not make up more than 50% of the total diet.

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

Producers have several alternative methods to harvesting drought-stressed corn .

If corn for silage is sold standing in the field, producers need to know how to determine a fair price for the standing crop.

Drought is impacting this year’s hay production, forcing livestock producers to find other sources of feed.

The drought is increasing the risk of baler fires this year.

Producers looking for livestock feed can connect with those who have it.

Topics for this year’s field day include cereal forage and corn silage variety trials and winter grazing crop residues.

Producers need to understand the potential risks of nitrate toxicity.

Grain yield potential may have declined to a point where harvesting the small grains as forage makes more sense than waiting to harvest the crop as grain.

Ranchers who have tame grass pastures or hay land should expect at least a 50% reduction in forage production.

Alfalfa is one of the most economically important hay crops impacted by drought.

Drought may lead to widespread winter-killed alfalfa this year.

Wildfires will increase the amount of bare ground, which can lead to a higher risk of erosion.

Forage production will be below normal on pasture and hay land this year.

The webinars will help ranchers develop a plan to deal with drought conditions.

Pasture Turnout Critical for Optimal Forage Production

Start planning now for future needs and changes.

The webinars will be held Thursdays in February and March.

Continuing drought conditions will have an impact on forage production.

Pastures stressed by drought and/or overgrazing this fall more than likely will experience a delay in grazing readiness in 2021.

An early frost poses challenges for making corn silage.

Determining the nutrient content of forages and other feeds through laboratory analysis is the best way to design a nutrition program that meets livestock requirements.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow producers to graze, hay or cut cover crops on prevented-planting acres beginning Sept. 1.

Sweetclover is a biennial legume that lives for two years.

Some producers may be facing a hay shortage.

The forage species selected will vary based on the primary planned use.

Planting a cover crop can enhance soil health while creating feed for late-season grazing or hay and haylage production.

In North Dakota, April-June precipitation is a good predictor of annual forage production in mixed-grass prairies.