Feeding hay and applying fertilizer may seem unrelated, but nutrient cycling connects the two. Winter hay feeding can have ...

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 ...

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 ...

As producers prepare for winter weather and take stock in their hay supplies, it is important to consider hay feeding management. We know that hay feeding reduces financial efficiency. In fact, OSU ...

Supplemental feed is the number one cost for most livestock and horse owners. In addition, nutrition has a substantial impact on animal health and performance. This holiday season, consider saving on ...

The time to start feeding hay varies throughout the Midwest, but with grass supplies short in drought-stricken areas, many producers have already started. With harvest in full swing, some producers ...

Utilize a hanging goat hay feeder; no-waste feeding is the ideal solution for goats that prefer to play with their food instead of eating it. A hanging hay feeder for goats can be adjusted for any ...

Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be easy, but it is not economical. Baled forage probably constitutes the highest percentage of winter feed cost we have wrapped up ...

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 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 ...

YAKIMA — With snow beginning to fall in the Cascades, it won’t be long before hungry elk start making their way to lower elevations, looking for ways to survive what’s expected to be another cold, wet ...