Dry weather can lead to a lethal lunch

Victor Iglesias

When it comes to pastures and hay, most farmers know that fescue can give cattle problems due to endophyte buildup. What many don't realize is that very hot, dry weather like Missouri had in July and the beginning of August can lead other harmful substances to build to toxic levels in warm-season annuals like johnsongrass and sorghum-sudan hybrids.

Find out more about the way prussic acid and nitrates in forages can poison your cattle.

Story by Roger Meissen.