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Pasture Turnout Critical for Optimal Forage Production

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

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

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

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

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.

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.