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 ...

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 ...

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 split image showing a group of hungry cows (left) and the California National Guard pushing bundles of hay off a helicopter to feed the cows.Humboldt County/California National Guard California's ...