The year was dry, forage is limited, last winter’s feed shortage is frozen into your memory, and you have cows to feed. With these thoughts in mind, maybe you harvested hay from the roadside—“ditch ...

Rationing the silage intakes of dry suckler cows according to body condition is resulting in forage savings of more than £40 a head on one Welsh livestock farm. Gwion Owen, who runs a 300-cow herd in ...

Dry cows strip grazing a standing crop of hay are saving between 70p and 80p a cow a day, while at the same time maintaining rumen fill. Rather than baling long stemmy grass for silage or hay just to ...

With rising input costs, many cow-calf producers are looking for ways to reduce expenses and improve profitability. Because ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

Silage and hay are dual multipurpose forage feed which is processed and fed to ruminant animals as supplementary feed in case of lack of green pasture shortage especially during dry season. It is the ...

To help reduce waste and stretch the food dollar, many people look for ways to use items in the refrigerator before they spoil. Beef producers with old hay stored on their operation often look for ...

Winter is around the corner and, hopefully, we have managed the ranch in a manner to avoid high feed costs. The most economical way to feed beef cattle is use of year-round, good quality grazing of ...

Lincoln, Neb. —Many cow-calf producers in Nebraska have become accustomed to using distillers grains as a source of both protein and energy to help meet the nutritional needs of lactating cows from ...

Using hay as one form of fodder for cattle, saves the farmer the hustle of walking long distances in search of pastures during the dry season. Unlike their counterparts in Kenya, very few farmers in ...

If you didn’t make hay, what could you do instead? Carson Roberts, Missouri extension state forage specialist, says the consensus in the beef industry is making your own hay is the cheapest way to ...