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Storing Food for Safety and Quality

Proper food storage ensures that the food you bring home remains safe to eat and retains its high quality. Learn about storing meat, vegetables, fruit, leftovers, home-preserved food and more.

Surine Greenway, Amy Robertson, Joe Peutz, Grace Wittman | Mar 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Improving calf performance by extending the grazing season with warm-season grasses and brassica forages

This research project set out to determine whether grazing cow-calf pairs on warm season grasses and brassica pastures would extend the grazing season and positively affect calf weaning weights and other characteristics.

Shelby Filley, Janice Hunter | Dec 2019 | Article

Endophyte Toxins in Grass and Other Feed Sources: Risks to Livestock

Many varieties of tall fescue and perennial ryegrass are infected with a fungal endophyte. Endophytes produce bioactive compounds that, while beneficial to the host plants, can be toxic to livestock that consume ...

Gene Pirelli, Nicole Anderson, A. Morrie Craig, Carolyn A. Young | Nov 2016 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Fall brings new needs for chickens

As temperatures drop and days get shorter in the fall, the needs of chickens change. To keep them healthy and productive, a few changes in their feeding and care are in order. Those changes include increasing their ...

James Hermes | Mar 2021 | Article

Tracking weeds is first step in controlling them

When winter approaches, it’s time to check your weed control plans. Noxious weeds are best controlled if you track them carefully. Weed mapping and weed calendaring are two activities important to tracking weeds so that you can properly control them. Here are a few tips to get you started.

Shelby Filley | Nov 2021 | Article

How to manage pastures for efficient and sustained production

The study of how forages grow and respond to livestock grazing has provided the knowledge to manage pastures for efficient and sustained production. Careful management is a cost-efficient way to produce quality forage.

Amy Peters | Jun 2010 | Article Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Pasture Nutrient Management Resources for Small Farms

This collection of links and publications are compiled information about managing nutrient levels in your pasture. This includes soil testing and assessment, application of fertilizers and minerals, and nutrient cycling in a forage pasture.

May 2017 | Collection

A dim light ignited a century ago: The invention of vegetable grafting by farmers

Fruit trees and grapevines have been grafted for centuries but the grafting of vegetable plants is relatively new. It started in 1927 in Japan and has since grown to be a common practice with environmental benefits.

Toshihiko Nishio, Alice Formiga (editor and translator), Shinji Kawai (editor and translator) | Jul 2018 | Article

Pasture Fertility

This podcast episode is part of the Living on the Land series. It provides concise information on the basics of pasture and livestock management, including use of sound conservation practices. Particularly for the region east of...

Brian Tuck, Shilah Olson, Ellen Hammond | Dec 2010 | Podcast episode Peer reviewed (Gray level)