Kansas State University beef production specialist Emma Briggs discusses the advantages and disadvantages of three kinds of ...

It’s inevitable; winter weather always leads to cattle producers feeding their livestock supplemental forage, something that ...

In the first trial, Undi compared the performance of cattle fed hay in a bale feeder in a dry lot daily ... sufficient nutritional energy, they will lose condition. Once it gets particularly ...

Grass too moist to cure for hay can be wrapped in plastic to ensile and store. Roberts warns that baleage made from toxic fescue will remain toxic. Ensiling preserves toxins. On the other hand, drying ...

“Research shows that 16-21% of that original bale weight can get wasted with them due to cattle trampling the hay. This type of waste can add up very quickly.” Yet, this does not mean an ...

Sweating, in regard to hay bales, refers to microbial respiration, which will create heat and result in dry matter (DM) loss. A good rule of thumb is that you should expect a 1% DM loss per 1% ...

Croghan, N.Y. — A 5-year-old died last weekend after getting pinned beneath a hay bale in Upstate New York. Silas J. Moser, of Carthage, was inside a barn in the North Country on Sunday ...

A bale is placed under a lean-to next to my stables so that it is easy to access. It also means that when a horse is loose in the yard to stretch their legs, they can pick at the haylage if they ...

The Loose Women host kept her followers in the loop ...