It was the autumn of 1976, and I was enjoying a gig on the Maryland horse farm known as Buckingham when the call of winter ...

Cattle should be yarded for five to seven days, and it was crucial to ensure all health treatments were carried out, such as ...

Gold Shaw Farm stores 35 tons of hay in preparation for cattle that haven’t yet arrived. Melissa Gilbert blasts Megyn Kelly over Epstein remarks, reveals unsettling“ Little House” story: 'I was 15' ...

When producers buy hay, they often think about how many tons they need to feed their livestock through the winter. Few, however, consider hay in terms of the nutrients it actually provides, says David ...

Ranchers throughout Wyoming and Nebraska are rallying to rush emergency hay to those impacted by wildfires tearing through critical cattle grazing lands. The University of Wyoming has launched an ...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe says he’s keeping an eye on the U.S. Drought Monitor as drought starts to creep back into southern Missouri. “Luckily for the people in the cattle production business and ...

Standing milo can provide exceptionally cheap winter forage. It costs as low as 45 cents per day and can support 400 cow days per acre. Traditional hay production is often economically inefficient.

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 ...

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.

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...