“Hay harvest is approaching, and producing high-quality hay reduces cattle supplementation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Davis discusses ...

Knowing when to cut hay will help determine forage quality. “I think many producers work to get maximum tonnage, but I would like to see the focus more on quality,” says Eric Bailey ...

Hay is an ideal complement to grass silage and can supply up to 30pc of the forage component of a finishing diet Hay being baled. Photo: Roger Jones The fall in beef prices I predicted has come to ...

This is good news, at least for you hay growers in our area: The market for high-quality alfalfa is looking extra strong this year. If you have more hay to harvest this year, how about harvesting ...

Roberts said a new more accurate method of testing hay is to grade them on the dry density of the bale. Since stems weigh less than leaves (but leaves back better than stems) a high quality bale ...