EMMONS COUNTY - Leonard Vetter lives in a shady oasis, under a grove of cottonwoods, amid chokecherry trees just ripe with fruit. Grasshoppers jump in the ditch along the gravel road in front of his ...

I'd like to pass along this information from Bruce Anderson, UNL Extension forage specialist. Oats for extra pasture, hay and silage Pasture and hay could be sparse again this spring unless we receive ...

BROKEN BOW - Broken Bow rancher and cowboy poet R.P. Smith said drought in the last few years made things "go backward" real fast, so he started looking at what might work better for his operation.

With the government open for business again, cattle traders are anxiously awaiting the monthly Cattle on Feed report, which will give an update on the state of the national herd. The report was ...

[Editor's note: Every Friday visit the Business 380 for "Back to the Futures," a quick discussion of the week's grain, livestock, gasoline prices and other topics.] Cattle spooked by shutdown With the ...

Oats are used in cereals but have not been a top seller on the market in Iowa. Earl Canfield created a market for his oats through livestock feed and helped his other crops because of the oats' ...

BURLINGTON, N.D. (AP) -- Rancher Dave Herzig has been experimenting with livestock feed, and he thinks turnips may be the answer. "Turnips have 25 percent protein while grass is about 8 to 10 percent, ...

Cereal rye grain possesses many uses within crop and livestock production. Growers make rye part of their corn-soybean crop rotation to boost yields, while ranchers needing an alternative feed might ...