It’s inevitable; winter weather always leads to cattle producers feeding their livestock supplemental forage, something that can be quite costly depending on the hay’s quality and availability. Kansas ...

Topper’s horns were wedged tight in the metal hay feeder. While reaching for a tasty bit of hay, he pushed his head into the feeder and turned his horns just so. Like a Chinese finger trap, the feeder ...

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.

When dining at a new restaurant and the eating utensil is unexpectedly chopsticks instead of a fork, it can make for a challenging experience. Similarly, newly weaned calves also have to adjust when ...

“I need 1,150 bales of hay for winter feed to keep my cows. We are slowly getting there, but it has been pretty dry,” Dvorak said. Ranchers not receiving moisture won’t be able to plant a cover crop ...

SAUK CENTRE, Minn. — Les Bell describes the 2021 hay crop at his cattle farm at Motley, Minnesota, as “ pretty much nonexistent.” So on March 3, Bell found himself in Sauk Centre at the hay auction, ...

In a good year, the Lazy Two Cattle Company already would have harvested about 1,200 bales of hay by now, the beginning of a stockpile to get its cows, bulls and yearlings through the winter when ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. -- With his cattle ranch threatened by a deepening drought, Jim Stanko isn't cheered by the coming storm signaled by the sound of thunder. "Thunder means lightning, and ...