Fall is a wonderful season for agriculture and a time to, hopefully, reap the bounty of the year’s production.

While producers and industry professionals alike recognize why forage sampling is important and generally agree with the oft-cited mantra of, “You cannot manage what you do not measure,” taking sufficient and accurate samples often falls to the bottom of the priority list.

This grazing season, don’t end up with dead or seizing cows in your pasture. Do all you can to prevent prussic acid poisoning in your herd.

Successful beef producers maximize available pasture. Planting annual forages is a time-tested way to increase yield per acre for a grazing herd of cattle.

For some cattle producers, drought is an expected and reoccurring event that is part of the management environment.

Cover crops, soil health, extended grazing and 13-way mixes are all buzzwords in the agronomic world today.