Experts discuss the merits of switching from small square bales to either wrapped round bales or bagged haylage and silage for a small dairy farm.

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. - When you're in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don't have high-quality feed, you ...

NEVADA, Mo. — Up to 25 percent of the leaves on alfalfa plants can be lost during hay baling, Ryan Lock, a University of Missouri research specialist, told farmers at an alfalfa meeting held Jan. 23 ...

A bill in the U.S. Senate would be a step in the right direction toward transparency and competition in this market, writes Mark Mueller.

Feeding cattle can be a labor intensive process, and research at Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, North Dakota, provides some guidance on practices that can ease the time ...

A lot of time and energy is spent harvesting quality hay and silage. All of that can be wasted without proper storage. For hay and silage, up to 50% losses in dry matter can occur in some instances, ...

The winter has been significantly shortened by the mild and dry October, which is very welcome, after last year. The weanlings and cows are now housed and got two more weeks at grass than I expected.

THE people of Leitrim are getting creative with bales - and it's all part of a competition to find the most stylish silage in Leitrim. Entrants are asked to decorate their silage bales as individually ...