“Livestock producers often tell me their prairie hay or cane hay or other grass hay looks really good but when a lab tested it the relative feed value, also called RFV, was surprisingly low ...

It's well known that most conventionally produced "industrial" beef in the U.S. is produced in large feed lots, where cattle are fed a diet that can include grass and hay but is primarily made up ...

A correspondent inquires of us, " why it is that cattle thrive and get fat much faster on grass than they do on hay, and what it is that grass loses by becoming hay ?" Chemical analysis never can ...

Cow-calf production in the upper Midwest is not historically profitable every year without significant cost savings in winter ...

State hay market summary reports for the week ending March 8, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Market News Service.

Brachiaria is one of the best grasses for making hay. Two or three weeks after the last rain, it is advisable to harvest the grass and dry it for storage. The yield will range from 18 to 20 tonnes ...