While many are enjoying the upturn in the cattle cycle, there is no better time to practice diligence and frugality to keep revenues in the business. As you are aware, feed costs constitute up to 70 ...

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 ...

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.

As producers prepare for winter weather and take stock OF their hay supplies, it is important to consider hay feeding management. It’s a reality that hay feeding reduces the efficiency of beef cow ...

After two years of droughts in Missouri, hay supplies are low, with many producers feeding hay during the summer months and lacking the pasture growth to get the tonnage comparable to previous year’s ...

With the current cost of feeds including hays, combatting waste is a good way to save some money. There are several shapes and sizes of hay from small square bales, rounds bales to large square bales.

If you didn’t make hay, what could you do instead? Carson Roberts, Missouri extension state forage specialist, says the consensus in the beef industry is making your own hay is the cheapest way to ...

SANBORN, Minn. — It’s the time of the year where cattle producers are starting to get their herds ready to endure the cold winter months. Troy and Hilary Paplow, manage Graff Feedlots in Sanborn, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — As the largest wildfire in Texas history ravages the Texas Panhandle, locals across the South Plains search for ways to help. One of the top concerns was cattle near those affected ...

Livestock guardian dogs spend their days protecting animals around the farm, and while napping on the job isn’t exactly encouraged, everyone needs a break now and then. Beth (@bedbeth.beyond on ...