Most of the Midwest had a surprisingly dry fall. This made for an excellent harvest, but how stressed were our pastures going into the winter? The lack of moisture and some sub-zero temperatures without snowfall have us thinking Old Man Winter did a number on our perennials.

Some people try to make pasture management a lot more difficult than needed…Some might think that a pasture that is grazed evenly to the ground, all the time, means that no forage was lost – no…It is really about the management of the forage to achieve the goals of production…