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FIELD DAY: Leveraging Technology to Improve Pastures and Cattle Performance

New technologies are transforming the livestock industry, giving land and livestock managers powerful tools to improve efficiency, animal health, and profitability. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to…

NC State Forage & Grassland 2025 Webinar Series, one session monthly Jul–Oct; Jul15 Aug20 Sep17 Oct8

Annual Forage & Grassland Management Webinar Series

Join us this year for the 2025 Forage & Grassland Management Annual Webinar Series. The full schedule and registration links are provided below. We are excited to share an excellent lineup of…

Bridging the GAP: Technologies to Improve Pasture Management and Winter Feeding

Technologies: Temporary fencing is a versatile tool that allows management of livestock, specially grazing cattle, in the landscape. Bale grazing provides the opportunity for winter feeding of…

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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.

Different arrangement of trees in pastures

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.…

Cattle walking in single file along a dirt path in a grassy, hilly pasture

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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Weed Management in Pastures - June 20, 2023 - Franklin County

Area horse owners and livestock producers are invited to join Cooperative Extension for weed management program next Tuesday, June 20th, at N.C. Cooperative Extension, Franklin County Center. See…

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Grazing Heights for Rotational Stocking

We have published a new article (see here) addressing grazing heights when implementing rotational stocking.

Forage Field Day, July 15th, 2022. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. at Piedmont Research Station, Salisbury, NC.

Forage Field Day, 15 July 2022, Salisbury, NC

Join us to see forage variety plots and hear about establishment and management of perennial warm- and cool-season forages in NC Piedmont.For registration, please call (704-216-8970) or email…

June 1, 2016: patchy sparse grass on bare soil; July 1, 2016: dense green grass

Research Brief: Evaluation of Sprigged Bermudagrass Cultivars in Spray Fields

There are several vegetatively propagated bermudagrass cultivars readily available to producers in North Carolina; a.k.a., sprigged bermudagrass cultivars. We frequently get asked which is the best…