ARS Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, in partnership with Montana State University’s Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, has been helping producers improve agricultural production nationwide since 1924.
The laboratory's scientific legacy is rooted in decades of combined research on inbreeding and selection, spanning the performance of sheep, milking shorthorn cattle, horses, turkeys, swine and beef cattle.
A new report looks at how incorporating cover crops into an integrated crop-livestock system with cattle, such as by grazing or harvesting the cover crops for forage, might improve the profitability of cover-cropping and livestock production.
Farmers can choose from several methods to reduce waste based on their preferences, labor availability and climate, says University of Missouri Extension specialist Charlie Ellis.
Postnatal heat stress costs the U.S. livestock industry approximately $2 billion annually (St-Pierre et al., 2003), with about $1 billion attributed to swine specifically (Pollman et al., 2010).