Ohio State Extension educator Emily Hornberger provides valuable insights into testing grazing pastures and other forages, ...

While a visual appraisal to gauge hay quality can be informative, extension experts stress that there’s only one way to truly know the quality of hay — getting an accurate test. “Hay that looks ...

Your hay bales might be shedding weight faster than a steer on Ozempic,” Mizzou hay specialist Rob Kallenbach quips.

Live cattle futures are up another $1.75 to $2 on Thursday’s midday. Cash trade has been quiet so far this week, with a few light sales of $200 in KS to start out on Wednesday. Feeder cattle ...

fields are “stocked” with big round bales to meet these objectives, typically recommended at 2 tons (4-5x5s) per acre to minimize long term field damage. It’s well documented that hay fed on fields ...

Baleage is a way of storing forage to preserve it as livestock feed. The big round bales are normally fed out to dairy cows, beef cattle, sheep and deer during winter. Until now, the wrap that ...

The Orepuki deer farmer, who invented a non-polluting baleage wrap that animals can eat, has just received his first shipment of plant fibre bale netting from India. Baleage is a way of storing forage ...

Now there are more than 1,000 empty spaces on his feedlot, where cattle are fattened on grain before being slaughtered for beef. Sign up here. "We stopped buying feeder cattle altogether," said ...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures closed sharply lower ... The heaviest demand was for small squares of premium alfalfa which brought $8.50 per bale, with small squares of ...

Feeder cattle and calf supplies outside of feedyards will also shrink by roughly 150,000 head, while cattle on feed inventories are starting the year slightly below 2024 levels at 11.9 million hea ...

The livestock kit invention’s sent ... This allows the lower roller to gently turn the bale while the higher spikes fling silage out into the feed passage. All the hydraulics and almost all ...