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Grid marketing can enhance the returns from marketing good cattle. And if cattle aren’t as good… it can put a dent in your return.

Haylage is forage that is wetter and, if preserved properly, it could be better.

Agriculture is changing by the way farmers and ranchers communicate with, and market to, consumers. This is an era of 450 million people on mobile Internet, 68 million bloggers, 500 million Facebook users and 55 million Twitter account holders. Social media has taken its threshold within the agricultural community by allowing producers to promote a positive message for agriculture in a time where there are many critics.

“Fire is a natural process,” John Weir, research associate with the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “It’s right behind rainfall as being important, because there’s nothing that a landowner can do that will impact the land like fire can. It’s a very important part of that process; it’s important for the native plant communities, and also for the native wildlife.”