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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

With the temporary letup from the harshness of winter weather, cow-calf producers are breathing a sigh of relief. The arctic cold is held at bay and the world seems to go a little better. But the cows ...