Hay quality is largely determined by management decisions, from harvest timing to storage. Improving these steps can reduce ...

“As hay season continues, I see a lot of large round hay bales being stored outside,” says University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist Patrick Davis. If hay is not stored properly ...

Hay season is always a challenge. In most years it seems the weather pattern never matches our grasses’ growth stage to harvest forage as dry hay at the peak of quality and quantity. We may luck out ...

Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be easy, but it is not economical. Baled forage probably constitutes the highest percentage of winter feed cost we have wrapped up ...

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.

Cows, with their multiple stomachs, can digest all manner of plant material. Horses need hay, high quality hay. As a drought-caused hay shortages looms this winter, here's an interesting strategy to ...

Hay is a major crop in the state of Tennessee, and many producers are gearing up for hay season as we march into the month of May. Since 2006, Tennessee hay producers have averaged harvesting 1.86 ...

A Japanese company is making a $14.4 million investment in hay storage at its alfalfa hay cubing plant in Pasco. Zen-Noh Hay, which ships compressed hay cubes to dairy and beef cattle farmers in Japan ...

PICABO, Idaho — Now harvesting his third and final cutting of hay, Pat Purdy is grateful his irrigation water got turned back on and the crop is looking good. “Our second cutting of hay was off ...

Southwest Missouri hay producers will have an opportunity to attend a regional school in Mount Vernon later this month to ...