Profitability of Nitrogen Applications for Stockpiling Tall Fescue Pastures

Applying Nitrogen to pastures in late summer provides an opportunity to increase forage production and decrease hay feeding days for the upcoming winter. This guide goes into more detail on stockpiling tall fescue.

How Often Should You Move Your cattle? (Progressive Forage)

The optimum time or how often to move cattle depends on your situation or scenario. This article evaluates how often it makes sense to move cattle on your operation, given the specifics of your farm.

Picking Apples off the Grazing Tree: When Grazing isn’t Profitable

How is picking apples and grazing related? This article on Progressive Forage by Greg Halich explains the analogy and how it all fits together. 

Picking Apples off the Grazing Tree: Rotational Intensity and Stockpiled Fescue (Progressive Forage)

In this article Greg Halich analyzes two of the most common methods used in the upper South to extend the grazing season: More intense pasture rotations to increase utilization of forage in the fall/winter and stockpiling forage and increasing fall yields with applied nitrogen.

Picking Apples off the Grazing Tree: The Stocking Rate – Hay Feeding Tradeoff (Progressive Forage)

In part three of the Picking Apples off the Grazing Tree, Greg Halich will evaluate how stocking rate impacts profitability and come up with some general recommendations for most profitable stocking rate given the specifics of a cow-calf farm.

Grazing Myths that Reduce Profitability (Progressive Forage)

This article highlights five grazing recommendations (myths) many folks are taking to extremes – and reducing the overall profitability of their farms and ranches in the process.