Feed costs make up the largest expense in a cow-calf operation. While hay is often used to feed cows through the winter, current prices make corn a competitive option to feeding hay. Considering corn ...

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 ...

Escalating costs for hay and supplements have many cattle producers concerned, especially with very poor pasture conditions and limited hay supplies in some areas of the state. Current feed costs have ...

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 ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average year of ...

Nebraska Extension will host a webinar titled Confinement Feeding Cow-calf Pairs in the Face of Limited Perennial Grass ...