Mid-February. The “interface” of feeding hay from last season while in various stages of fertilizer applications for this season. Completely unrelated? Not as much as you might think. If you’ve ever ...

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 ...

Hay season is always a challenge. In most years it seems the weather pattern never matches our grasses’ growth stage to harvest forage as dry hay at the peak of quality and quantity. We may luck out ...

Supplemental feed is the number one cost for most livestock and horse owners. In addition, nutrition has a substantial impact on animal health and performance. This holiday season, consider saving on ...

Utilize a hanging goat hay feeder; no-waste feeding is the ideal solution for goats that prefer to play with their food instead of eating it. A hanging hay feeder for goats can be adjusted for any ...

Damaged, rained-on hay. Nearly everyone has to feed it sometime. How should your feeding practices be adjusted, though, to account for any damage caused by the rain? Rain can have numerous effects on ...

As a livestock producer I found myself wondering about how much hay my livestock waste and what the affects are in certain feeding methods on my livestock. I asked myself, are there better methods ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The triple-digit days we're having here in North Texas are having a direct impact on livestock owners, especially those needing hay to keep their animals healthy. Amanda Philips ...

A Devon dairy farm that feeds hay as a standing crop to autumn-calving cows during the dry period has a milk fever incidence of just 1%. The Cheriton family introduced this high-fibre diet after ...