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 ...

Silage and hay are preserved feeds that come in handy for dairy cows during periods of scarcity of green forage. The process of making silage involves fermentation under anaerobic conditions. It ...

About a year ago, I shared our group’s work to evaluate and update estimates of feed intake for beef cows. One of the popular sources for feed intake estimates is a table published by Hibberd and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

While Nebraska hay production has improved since 2022 (see Figure 1), proactively planning hay needs this fall, winter, and ...

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 ...

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 ...