Options for Safely Using High-Nitrate Forage

  • By Mary Drewnoski │ Nebraska Extension Beef Systems Specialist
Cattle graze on a north central Colorado prairie, about 30 miles south of Cheyenne, Wyoming, under puffy cloud cover. Farming and ranching during this period of climate change presents a number of challenges, but a group of agricultural experts have provided tips to overcome the times. (Photo courtesy of David Augustine, Agricultural Research Service.)

Wild weather times

Katahdin sheep grazing Indiangrass, big bluestem, little bluestem mix during D3 drought in Truxton, Missouri. (Photo by Rusty Lee.)

Native warm-season grasses help feed livestock through drought

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Great Plains still feeling drought stress

Showing potential and embracing it

(Photo courtesy of K-State Research and Extension.)

Cut the cost of watering trees

U.S. Drought Monitor - July 18, 2023

Drought continues to have hold in country’s midsection

Drought stressed cornstalks

Drought recovery workshop in Appleton City on Aug. 3