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Pasture Weed Management and Drought
Pasture weed management always presents a challenge. There are dynamic, complex interactions between desirable forages, grazing animals, encroaching weeds, soil types, nutrient levels, climate and...
Wildlife Management Issues During Drought
The Noble Research Institute Wildlife and Fisheries Consultants provide drought tips on a number of topics.
The Potential for Grazing Winter Pasture With Cows
In most years, winter pasture would be planted by Sept. 1 and some fields would be turning green at the start of October. However, throughout southern Oklahoma and northern Texas in 2011, this may not be the case because of the drought.
Drought must be considered when applying prescribed fire
Fire is a natural process to which plant communities have adapted. Drought, which in recent years has been a major issue in the Southern Great Plains, is also a natural process to which these plant communities have adapted.
Remember These Drought Management Strategies During the Rest of the Summer
Unless we have an atypically wet summer, many producers will be forced to implement some drought management strategies, if they have not already. Here are a couple of topics to keep in mind looking forward to the remaining summer.
Drought Management
Updated February 2018*While the years and numbers mentioned in this publication may be outdated, the strategies and principles listed are still accurate.*
Drought can be defined simply as 75 percent...
Managing Pastures During Drought
Exceptional drought robbed pasture and range managers of the 2011 forage production they were counting on to get to the traditional winter feeding period. Thus, many are left trying to feed their way through this drought or destock to better match forage demand to forage availability.
Bermudagrass recovery requires managing ryegrass
This article provides management guidelines to benefit from ryegrass while encouraging bermudagrass recovery. While the focus is on ryegrass in bermudagrass, the same principles apply to other cool-season annuals in other warm-season perennial grasses.
Economics of No-Tilling Cereal Rye Pastures
The Noble Research Institute shares results from its on-farm study comparing the production and economics of clean-till and no-till methods for establishing cereal rye pasture for grazing.
Stockpiled Summer Annual Forages as a Replacement for Fall Wheat Pasture
Ranchers have opportunities to increase production of different annual forages on a portion of the acres they normally plant to wheat.