• Winter Bale Grazing in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region

    Published on May 13, 2025
    This bulletin provides practical guidance for implementing bale grazing as a winter-feeding strategy for beef cattle in Michigan, including equipment needs, layout tips, animal health considerations and soil fertility benefits.

  • Recordkeeping System for Crop Production

    Published on May 12, 2025
    A system for keeping records for pesticide application, nutrient application, manure application, animal burial and composting, irrigation and employee training.

  • Michigan Wild Bee Identification Cards

    Published on May 12, 2025
    These bee identification cards can help you learn about bees that you might see visiting flowers in your neighborhood.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Sunflower

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Sunflower is a quick-growing warm season annual broadleaf cover crop with deep roots that improve soil compaction and scavenge soi nutrients. Sunflowers are great additions to multi-species cover crop mixes.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Red Clover

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Red clover is a vigorous cool-season legume cover crop. When planted early enough in the season, red clover overwinters well and can produce nitrogen.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Cereal Rye

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Cereal rye dependably overwinters, even when seeded late into the fall and can offer erosion protection and weed suppression.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Oilseed Radish

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Oilseed radish is a quick-growing cool-season annual brassica cover crop. The long taproot helps improve soil compaction and scavenges nitrogen from the soil.

  • Health and Safety in the Garden

    Published on May 7, 2025
    This resources provides safety tips for gardeners.

  • Bulletin E-3506 Models for Raising Pigs for Pork

    Published on May 5, 2025
    This publication highlights the differences in cost and revenue structures for contract and independent finishers. It was developed from a 2024 National Pork Board funded grant.

  • Measure and track serum total protein scores in calves

    Published on May 2, 2025
    Whether you are using a Brix or analog refractometer to measure serum total protein (STP) in calves for passive immunity, this chart will help you track STP scores and identify potentially at-risk calves or an ineffective colostrum management program.