While attending CattleCon 2025, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays had the chance to visit Corteva Pasture and Range Management Field Scientist Sam Ingram. Oklahoma Farm Report’s coverage of CattleCon 2025 is powered by Farm Data Services of Stillwater.
Corteva is the market leader in pasture and range management products and keeps a pipeline flowing with new products ready to enter the marketplace. Corteva Range & Pasture products effectively manage weeds and brush in permanent pasture and grazed rangeland, to increase grass production and sustainable grazing resources.
“We want to limit the nutrients that broadleaf weeds and brush take away from us, and we turn it over to the forages that we either planted there, or were already on the farm because they were developed with high yields, high quality, and vigor,” Ingram said.
Ingram pointed out that a livestock producer’s lowest-cost feed source is standing forage. In addition to nutrients being stolen by unpalatable weeds and brush, groundwater is also lost to them making the application of Corteva herbicides makes sense.
“However infrequent rains may be, we want to let them be taken up by our grasses and other forages,” Ingram said.
He encouraged producers to put pencils to paper to see for themselves how pasture and rangeland herbicides would increase their profitability.
“We have a new herbicide, NovaGraz™, which preserves white clover, but controls a lot of our broadleaf weeds,” Ingram said. “This is a brand-new tool in the toolbox. That economic value is from white clover making nitrogen. It puts it back into the system, so we are saving money on nitrogen inputs when we preserve the white clover in that system. We could pay for that herbicide application three times over, so NovaGraz™ herbicide is a game change for producers.”
Corteva has range and pasture specialists spread across the U.S. familiar with all of the different regions and their challenges and eager to recommend products to mitigate those challenges.
More information about Corteva pasture and range management products can be found on the website.
