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 ...

When dining at a new restaurant and the eating utensil is unexpectedly chopsticks instead of a fork, it can make for a challenging experience. Similarly, newly weaned calves also have to adjust when ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANDAN, N.D. — Bill Klesalek faced drought in 2020, but hopes the feed he saved from the wet 2019 will get him through this winter. Two years ago he was up to 500 cows, but has cut 350 cow-calf pairs, ...

About this time last year, rice growers and cattle ranchers were looking at an interesting partnership: Could rice straw, if handled at the very green stage, be used as cattle feed? The term for this ...

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 ...

A feed marketplace says it is well placed with more than 10,000 bales of silage, baleage and hay ready to roll out to farmers ahead of a hot, dry summer. An El Nino weather pattern has been declared ...

LUNENBURG — It’s good to have friends in low places, especially if that place is actually Low Places Ranch. Low Places Ranch at 281 Leominster-Shirley Road serves horses, goats, chickens, rabbits, ...