Texas A&M Agrilife Releases Cover Crop Grazing Guidance

By Kay Ledbetter

Producers in the Southern Great Plains looking to boost soil health on their lands while earning added income from livestock grazing can now access new guidance from Texas A&M AgriLife experts.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists and Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists developed four new fact sheets that walk farmers through the basics of growing cover crops for grazing, from selecting species and assessing biomass to evaluating grazing economics and animal safety risks.

“Because of the many questions about grazing cover crops and limitations in semi-arid regions, we created the series of fact sheets to address details that producers should consider,” said Jourdan Bell, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist and associate professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Amarillo.