Rangeland Management
Early action helps avoid losing forage to grasshopper damage
Prolonged drought brings dry conditions and the potential for a surge of grasshopper populations that can hurt pastures, rangeland and hay production.
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Mobile app aids prescribed burn management
Prescribed fire is a powerful tool that can be used to achieve management goals and manipulate vegetation.
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Grants to help farms & ranches build resilience to drought
The USDA remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty.
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Farmers, ranchers mitigate impacts of drought with good planning
USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service is helping to mitigate impacts of drought across the nation. With good drought plans and conservation systems, farmers and ranchers are better equipped to manage dry and other extreme weather.
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NRCS offers science, conservation action to areas facing drought
The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service water and climate and other experts are predicting drought conditions in the West and places across the nation, marking a possible two-year drought in many states.
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Careful management aids drought survival
The U.S. Drought Monitor released on Nov. 20, 2012, shows the majority of Oklahoma and Texas in severe to extreme drought with northern Oklahoma and the Panhandle in exceptional drought.
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Grazing grass too short kills off root systems
In the prolonged summer drought, farmers noticed that grass stayed green longer in their hayfields than in their pastures.
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Webinars for ranch advisors to focus on drought planning
A spring webinar series will provide drought planning techniques and technologies to advisors seeking to help Great Plains ranchers manage through drought.
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Restoring rangeland after fire
Dwayne Elmore examines rangeland forage regrowth after fire.
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Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
Oklahoma absorbed more than $400 million in losses in 2012 due to the ongoing drought, according to estimates by researchers at Oklahoma State University.
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Good grazing management can increase soil mineral nitrogen
Low available mineral nitrogen limits grass production more than low water on grassland pastures.
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