Alabama row crop producers face a bleak market outlook for the 2020 growing season. In times of economic uncertainty, producers must manage ...
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Start by improving soil health in hayfields and pastures. Healthy soil...
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Properties of a Healthy Soil
High organic matter content
Optimal nutrients and pH for plant growth
Stable aggregates to pro...
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Make the right forage choices for your cow-calf operation with the help of the diagrams provided.
A sound grazing program include...
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Make the right forage choices for your cow-calf operation with the help of the diagrams provided.
A sound grazing program include...
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Producers increasingly rely on commercial soil testing laboratories to provide nutrient recommendations for crops. To make best-mana...
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Soils provide plants with mechanical support, water, and dissolved minerals and nutrients. Because most plant roots are found in the topsoil...
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Ricky Wiggins discusses soil health stewardship. Wiggins operates Wiggins Farm in Andalusia, Alabama in Covington County. The family farm ha...
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Annual cover crops introduce quality forage at opportune times of the year, help to create more diverse farm habitats, and provide opportuni...
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Practices such as prevention of overgrazing and increasing forage species diversity can help livestock producers increase soil health in pas...
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Mitch Lazenby, of Lazenby Farms, discusses soil health stewardship. Lazenby has been farming in Lee County for more than 25 years. He began ...
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Myron Johnson discusses soil health stewardship. Johnson operates Double J Farms, Inc. in Headland, Alabama in Henry County. Johnson said wa...
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