Nitrates in Forages: Poisonings & Preventions

From Part One, posted in Managing Forages with Ruminants: “The problem, therefore, is where protein synthesis occurs, which is usually higher up in the leaves. Photosynthesis and a major portion of protein metabolism occur in the leaves, thus when environmental...

Cattle Don’t Need Grain… Or Don’t They?

(Originally published on Praise the Ruminant in April 2019.) When you raise at least one bovine (or any ruminant, for that matter), you not only have to know how but what to feed it.  The problem is that there’s a surprising amount of misinformation out...