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When it comes to ranching, our pastures, forages and rangeland are our life’s blood. Search these archives for information pertaining to weed control, brush control and maintaining the proper balance of nutrients in our soils. Read about the qualities of different varieties of grasses like Bermuda, Bahia and Fescue—and so much more.
Five ways to stretch your fertilizer dollar
published: April 1st 2011 by: James Locke source: Noble Foundation
With many analysts predicting that fertilizer use will return to normal levels during 2011 and expected tight supplies, higher prices are on the way. We hope that they will not reach the astronomical levels seen a few years ago, but we need to be prepared....
Calculating Cattle Stocking Rates
published: March 31st 2011 source: Southern States
Pasture, like any asset must be managed to achieve optimum performance. However, before you can manage a pasture you will need to know just how many animals of a particular type your pasture might support....
Expect Higher Fertilizer Costs
published: March 5th 2011 by: Robert Burns source: Texas Agri Extension
Escalating unrest in the Middle East is not only going to continue to drive gasoline and diesel fuel prices up to 2008 levels, but there’s a good chance it will do the same to the cost s of fertilizing pastures, according to a Texas AgriLife Research expert....
Funding Available For Texas Ranchers
published: January 20th 2011 source: NRCS
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications to participate in USDA’s Grassland Reserve Program (GRP), a $4.6 million conservation program in Texas. “While GRP is open to anyone who owns grassland, we are giving priority consideration to grassland areas of Texas that are threatened with conversion to other uses so ranchers can protect their land resources through rental agreements or perpetual easements,” said Salvador Salinas, acting state conservationist for the USDA-NRCS in Texas....
Prescribed Burns May Be Needed In Summer and Winter
published: November 13th 2010
VERNON - To the untrained eye, grass is grass. But for the nutrition and palates of wildlife and cattle, the grass is as different as roast beef and green beans or potato chips and dip are to humans, according to a Texas AgriLife Research scientist....
Weeds - let’s get ’em next year
published: October 29th 2010 by: Edder Funderburg source: Noble Foundation
All sports fans know that when the team didn't do as well as expected this year, there's always next year. Weed control can work like that too. If you didn't get the sandburs this year, make plans now to get 'em next year....
Nelson ryegrass out-yields Gulf by 2,000 pounds per acre
published: October 15th 2010 by: Robert Burns source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
OVERTON -- Pinching pennies when buying ryegrass seed for winter grazing is a bad business decision, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist. “Nelson” is a newly released ryegrass developed by Dr....
Coated And Uncoated Clover Seed Have Different Planting Rates
published: October 4th 2010 by: Robert Burns source: TAMU Ag Communications
Unless farmers want to chance reduced yields, they should probably stick with inoculating their clover seed themselves, according to a Texas AgriLife Research forage scientist. "Or they should realize that they'll need to plant the coated seed at a higher rate per acre to get the same yields," said Dr....
Managing Fire Ants
published: September 26th 2010 source: Iowa State University
Imported fire ants are now a major pest problem throughout Texas and southeastern United States, including in cattle production operations. No methods have been developed to successfully eradicate fire ants, but research may ultimately provide a method to eliminate this pest....
Over-the-top grass control in sorghum on the horizon
published: September 17th 2010 by: Kay Ledbetter source: Texas AgriLife Extension Service
AMARILLO - Apply today's chemicals to a sorghum crop for grass control and the sorghum will be killed off also. But a solution could be only a few years away if Texas AgriLife Research plots are any indication....
Land Program Teaches Stewardship
published: August 18th 2010 by: William Pack source: MySA.com
After finishing graduate-level food courses and a farming apprenticeship program in New York, Karen Turner is focusing on a six-course land-stewardship series in San Antonio with dreams of turning her family's small tract near Marion into a dairy....
World Cup Turf Developed By East Texan
published: July 10th 2010 by: Robert Burns source: TAMU Ag Communications
OVERTON -- You might call it a world-class save. To rescue soccer fields being used for the World Cup in South Africa, grounds managers used a turfgrass bred and developed near Overton in East Texas....
Livestock fences should be more than a mental barrier
published: July 9th 2010 by: Robert Wells source: Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Everyone has heard the expression “good fences make good neighbors.” This has never been truer than in today’s world. Many counties have closed range laws, meaning that if livestock gets out of a pasture and causes damage such as an automobile accident, the owner of the livestock is liable....
Manure Provides Higher Returns Than Chemical Fertilizer According To Study
published: July 1st 2010 by: Kay Ledbetter source: TAMU Ag Communications
No significant differences in corn yield were found between organic and chemical sources of nutrients, but a Texas AgriLife Research economist said manure generates higher economic returns than anhydrous ammonia....
Feral Hog Birth Control Research Underway
published: June 3rd 2010 source: Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — There’s a saying that when a feral hog has six piglets, only eight are expected to survive. That’s no joke in Texas, however, where the 400-pound beasts do an estimated $50 million in damage to crops and property each year....
Potassium essential in pastures and hay fields
published: May 28th 2010 by: Eddie Funderburg source: Noble Foundation
Potassium (K) is an essential element in plants and is considered one of the three macronutrients, along with nitrogen and phosphorus. Its relative amount is analyzed and reported in almost all routine soil samples....
Crop Insurance Hearings Continue
published: May 19th 2010 source: Crop Insurance Professionals Association
LUBBOCK, Texas-The Farm Bill hearings that have been taking place in rural communities from coast to coast hit Lubbock Monday, where Ronnie Holt, chairman of the Crop Insurance Professionals Association (CIPA), testified before the House Agriculture Committee....
The economic potential of alternative nutrient sources for cattle operations
published: April 30th 2010 by: Job Springer
When visiting with cattle producers I often hear that commercial fertilizer is too expensive to purchase for their operations. These comments have come from both cow/calf producers and stocker operators....
Cedar Depletes Soil Moisture
published: April 17th 2010 source: MySA.com
For half a century, Hill Country ranchers have been telling tales of springs bursting from the ground after they removed those allergy-causing, water-sucking Ashe junipers. Now a study on 700 acres owned by the state 40 miles north of San Antonio is giving federal researchers the data to find out just how much water the trees use, and if a massive program to restore grasslands across the Hill Country would result in more water for cities, farms and wildlife....
34-inch high fencing keeps feral hogs out summer and winter
published: April 16th 2010 source: Texas Agri-Life Extension Service
OVERTON - - The second phase of a Texas AgriLife Extension Service study confirmed that it is possible to exclude feral hogs from wildlife feeding stations without limiting access by white-tailed deer....
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