How to Reduce Alfalfa Heaving
Alfalfa heaving goes hand in hand with spring frost-heave cycles and can cause significant damage to your stand. Deer Creek Seed has all the information you need on alfalfa heave!
Easy and Effective Tips for Successful Frost Seeding
We’re sharing information on the ultimate pasture and food plot management hack! Learn the basics of frost seeding and some easy, effective tips for success.
Advanced Tips For Checking Your Soil For Best Yields
Soil testing is a valuable tool when gardening or farming, and it doesn’t have to be intimidating. Deer Creek Seed has what you need to know about when and how to test your soil!
How To Select the Right Variety of Alfalfa
Trying to decide on a new alfalfa variety? Let Deer Creek Seed help you select the highest-quality, best-yielding alfalfa seed for your farm’s needs!
Which Grass Pasture Seed Is Best for Your Animals
Deciding which grass pasture seed to plant is a careful balance of your animal’s forage nutritional needs and your farm’s environmental conditions. Learn how you can select the best forage seed for your animals
What is Frost Seeding & How Can it Help My Farm?
Frost seeding is the easiest, low cost method to improve grass and legume forage yield in overgrazed pastures or on intensive grazing systems.
Comfortable Cows = Higher Milk Production. Tips for keeping your cows comfy!
Milk production has many factors for success, including cow comfort. Cow comfort consists of but is not limited to having enough of the proper feed and clean water available, clean bedding areas, as well as ample rest and feeding times. Still curious what cow comfort can do for your herd? Read on to learn how you can improve your cow comfort.
Hay Sampling Tips & Tricks
It's that time of year again, when farmers start preparing to put away hay and silage for the winter. Want to make sure your livestock feed is up to snuff? See what our Master Seedsmen recommend for getting a good hay sample for the lab and a top-notch nutritional analysis.
Use of Brassica Crops to Extend the Grazing Season
A great article from the USDA and Pennsylvania State University on brassica crops to consider for extended production.
Growing Double Crop Forages after Small Grains
This article from the University of Wisconsin highlights ideas for double cropping a forage after a small grain crop.