Grazing livestock on cover crops is one of the most efficient ways to improve soil fertility. (Courtesy photo.)

Management intensive grazing school is Oct. 1-3

Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier

‘Ranch Conversation’ coming to Beaver

Drought stressed cornstalks

USDA to offer aid to drought-impacted ag  producers in Kansas

The USDA-ARS Experiment Lake Dam in Woodward has been redesigned to include a new spillway design to maintain base flow and limit overflow during a flood. The spillway design is based on standardized guidance developed by ARS scientists at the Agroclimate and Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Hunt, USDA-ARS Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center, Agroclimate and Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit)

Dedication marks modernization of USDA experimental dam

Prescribed burn in the Flint Hills of Kansas. (Photo courtesy of Kansas State University Research and Extension.)

Prescribed burn plan training in Kansas

Summer landscape with green grass field and blue sky

Williams received Oklahoma Leopold award

Kansas Geological Survey estimated reductions of 18% to 32% in pumping of underground water in the High Plains Aquifer in Kansas could extend life of the resource in some areas by a decade. KGS says savings require farmers to reduce water use for irrigating crops in western Kansas. (Allison Kite/Kansas Reflector)

Crop Insurance Discount Program deadline approaching

Feedyard cattle need acess to fresh, clean water during their stay in the yard. In times of extreme heat, high humidity or no wind, water becomes even more critical. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

Navigating winter manure application for beef operations