Figure 3. Comparison of plant residue amount with ability to capture snowfall moisture.

Winter Pasture Report: What’s your plan for spring?

Rain Rainy Clouds Above Countryside Rural Field Landscape With Young Green Wheat Sprouts In Spring Summer Cloudy Day. Heavy Clouds Above Agricultural Field. Young Wheat Shoots (Photo: Adobe Stock │ #480573809 - Great Brut Here)

November provided beneficial precipitation in the High Plains

Cows on green meadow. (iStock │ #519861662 - Toltek)

Considerations for fall grazing annual forages

Pasture summer heat (Photo: AI generated image)

Summer’s heat likely to stay awhile

A combine motors through a wheat field a few years back southwest of Salina, Kansas. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)

May was a month for the records

Amy Langvardt minds the cattle at the May Beef Month proclaimation event May 12 near Manhattan, Kansas. Lyons Ranch hosted the event where Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed the proclamation. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

Beneficial rain fell in parts of northwest Oklahoma

Photo courtesy of U.S. Wheat Associates.

Wheat crop deteriorates due to lack of moisture

Regina Bird

Lack of rain hurting parts of the Plains