Hay season is always a challenge. In most years it seems the weather pattern never matches our grasses’ growth stage to harvest forage as dry hay at the peak of quality and quantity. We may luck out ...

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 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 properly ...

Gold Shaw Farm manages the massive logistical hurdle of stockpiling thirty-five tons of winter forage in anticipation of their first cattle. Dwayne Johnson wears skirt to Met Gala: 'Masculine men wear ...

Hay is a major crop in the state of Tennessee, and many producers are gearing up for hay season as we march into the month of May. Since 2006, Tennessee hay producers have averaged harvesting 1.86 ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

Hay is a staple feed for livestock in the southern Unites States, providing protein, energy, and fiber. It has been a tough year for good hay production and producers are trying to utilize any ...

When livestock producers buy hay, they usually think in terms of how many tons they need to feed their livestock through the winter, said David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist and interim ...