Many people assume the grass growing in yards and fields offers a straightforward wild food source. In reality, the grass family includes more than 11,000 species, and edibility varies widely.

As a country blessed with the soils and climate needed to produce high yields of quality forage, there is strong demand for machinery to maintain and harvest copious quantities of grass in spring and ...

Many livestock producers in North Dakota are facing forage shortages due to drought and/or cool spring temperatures.

The prairies of North America once covered vast stretches of land, with towering grasses creating ideal nesting and forage habitat for grassland birds. But the deep, rich soil and treeless expanse ...

MADISON, Wis., Aug. 28 (UPI) --A long ignored grass species is poised for a comeback. Federal researchers are urging cattle farmers in the Upper Midwest to reintroduce a fescue variety forgotten by ...

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Researchers found that a common cattle forage grass, tall fescue, is associated with nest failure in dickcissels, small grassland birds similar to sparrows. The prairies of North America once covered ...