Roadside bales can fill a winter forage gap, but debris, weed seeds, herbicide carryover and poor nutrition require careful management.

To conserve hay, it is recommended to feed in small amounts, use feeders, and store bales in a way that protects them from ...

Nutrient requirements are not consistent for all classes of livestock. By: Daren Redfearn, UNL Forage and Crop Residue Systems Specialist; Mary Drewnoski, UNL Beef Systems Specialist; and Jay Parsons, ...

Which comes first, the grain or the hay? You might love rewarding that excited nickering with a bucket full of sweet feed, followed by hay for hours of chewing pleasure. But according to recent ...

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 ...

Hay is expensive and many long hours go into harvesting, storing and feeding it. Don’t waste up to a third of it by using poor feeding practices. Believe it or not, cattle can trample, over consume, ...

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 ...

OMAHA (DTN) -- Feeding cattle hay is an expensive proposition. This is especially true with a severe drought in parts of the Midwest limiting forage production and causing hay prices to rise the last ...

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 ...

Regardless of what option cattle producers select, becoming more efficient when feeding hay and forage will help cattle producers' bottom line. (DTN photo by Russ Quinn) OMAHA (DTN) -- Whether you ...

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 ...