Cattle eating from a round bale will digest the hay slower and more of that will be absorbed in the digestive tract, he added. “A downside of feeding hay from the round bale is that cattle will ...

New and improved hay feeder and bunk designs are going a long way toward maximizing on-hand stocks of hay so they can last through the winter. This includes the recent availability of square hay ...

We’ve sold all but three of our feeders. We’ve been using them less and less; we usually just open a bale and put the hay on the ground. A herd of 15 to 20 cattle will eat an entire 1,000 ...

As a livestock producer I found myself wondering about how much hay my livestock waste and what the affects are in ... on the ground with a bale processor or feeding hay in a round bale feeder.

The BV4580 features an easy-feed design system that can handle high volumes of crop with an easy flow of material into the baler, producing a dense, well-formed bale every time.

There’s no one “right way” for everyone when it comes to hay storage. By: Steve Niemeyer, UNL Extension Educator. Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be ...

Bale grazing is a viable option for winter cattle feeding, compared to feeding the same hay in a dry lot. Photo taken Nov. 4, 2024, near Watertown, South Dakota.

“As hay season continues, I see a lot of large round hay bales being stored outside,” says University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist Patrick Davis. If hay is not stored ...

They usually would have 500 large round hay bales in a lot but this year have only 200. “I know the exact pounds we feed every day to every animal,” he said. The hay will get him to mid-July.

Ultimate Hayfeeders offers budget solution to healthy diet for cattle. FIELD days have been important for motivation and a source of market research for dairy farmer Andrew Talarico, who started ...

Kubota announces the release of its all-new BV4580 round baler. The BV4580 is the highest capacity baler of Kubota's line, bringing to market a baler ...