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Biology and Control of Fire Ants in Pastures

Fire ants can affect your livestock or hay operation and cost you time and money. Fire ants are well established and adapted in some counties of North Carolina while continuing to spread across…

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Early Drought Management Tips for Pasture-Based Livestock Producers

Early drought management tips for pasture-based livestock producers. Matt Poore, Seth Nagy, Dale Monks, Miguel Castillo, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionThese thoughts have been generated based on many…

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Productivity, Nutritive Value, Nitrates, and Stem Maggot Damage for Five Forage Bermudagrass Cultivars in Spray Fields

IntroductionIn the coastal plains of North Carolina, bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] is a widely grown forage in land receiving swine effluent application (also known as spray fields). In…

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Silvopasture Systems in the Southeast

This is a video where Dr. Castillo from NC State and colleagues from Clemson, Virginia Tech, and producers, present and discuss silvopasture systems in the Southeast USA.

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2024 Forage Webinar Series

Save the date for the 2024 Forage Webinar Series. Registration details will follow. Forage & Grassland Management Webinar Series Once a month in July, August, September & October 2024

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Silvopasture Tours; Sept. 5 & 6, North Carolina

Save-the-date. Join us for the opportunity to visit and discuss two typical silvopasture systems in North Carolina.

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Silvopastures in North Carolina, What Have We Learned?

Silvopastoral systems can provided multiple ecosystem services – the benefits people obtain from ecosystems –, for example, forage production, wildlife viewing, meat, milk, carbon sequestration.…

Grazing (beef steers) and foraging (pollinators) grass-clover pastures

Consider Frost-Seeding Clovers Into Tall Fescue Pastures

Tall fescue-clover pastures have a long history of improving livestock performance in the U.S. transition zone as well as mitigating the effects of fescue toxicosis. In addition, clovers in tall…

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Video: I Have Land and Livestock. Are the Amounts Balanced....?

A critical decision for land and livestock managers is the amount of land needed for a given number of livestock. This decision is not trivial, and in fact has the most influence on the outcomes of a…

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Granville County Cattleman's Association Meeting

Join us on July 13th at the N.C. Cooperative Extension, Granville County Center office for the Cattleman's Association meeting. Topics to be discussed include: 1) strategies to achieve year-round…