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.

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 ...

MANDAN, N.D. - It's a wintry January in rural Morton County, but LeRoy Helbling and Rosemary Helbling are busy keeping their herd snug at the Helbling Hereford Ranch, southwest of Mandan. LeRoy, 58, ...

Very little rain fell in July throughout North Dakota, and combined with many days of high heat, feed crops for livestock — hay, corn silage, oats and others — have ...