How to Meet your Cow’s Nutrient Needs when Feeding Hay this Winter can help you in your decision-making process. Road ditch hay can provide needed forage.

Another concept of feeding cows through the winter is to feed out in either hay or pasture fields. This concept is not necessarily new but is gaining popularity.

Feeding hay to cows on pasture and hay fields during the winter months is gaining popularity as opposed to more traditional confinement feeding. Feeding on fields has several benefits that include ...

Feed costs make up the largest expense in a cow-calf operation. While hay is often used to feed cows through the winter, current prices make corn a competitive option to feeding hay.

Cow-calf production in the upper Midwest is not historically profitable every year without significant cost savings in winter feeding. Jared Luhman details what works at Central Minnesota Farm Show.

File photo shows cows graze in spring 2014 on Table Mountain near Oroville, when there was still some green grass to eat. The question of how to feed them in summer is driving research on using ...

But hay is cut five times a season, and the ration should be revised every time the farm starts feeding hay from a different cutting, Swartz said.

Feeding a limit-fed grain ration in a large cow/calf operation can be challenging. These units usually don't have bunks or enough bunks to accommodate all the cows.

Hay often is purchased or harvested without any consideration of what it contains or what it weighs. “If it looks good, it must be good feed,” is commonly the hay ...

We know that feeding cows a protein supplement along with grass or hay increases the amount of grass and hay they consume, so we hoped the insect-based supplement would have the same effect.

They farm 565 acres, which includes 251 acres of mixed-grass hay and 92 acres of hardwood timber that has never been harvested. They also have a 60-head cow/calf operation and two bulls.