Low grain prices and below-average forage availability mean forage is expensive. Therefore, limit-fed grain rations are one option for cow herds. Feeding grain rations will require feed bunks, a feed ...

November is a good time to review winter feeding plans, according to University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Eric Meusch. “Forage growth has come to an end, so making sure producers have ...

Escalating costs for hay and supplements has many cattle producers concerned, especially in the face of very poor pasture conditions and limited hay supplies in some areas of Missouri. Current feed ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Winter feed represents one of the largest costs for a livestock production enterprise. One alternative to limit costs resulting from harvest and purchase of hay or feeding of hay is ...

Hay production may no longer be the most efficient or profitable use of your time and resources. A Missouri forage specialist ...

The primary forage base for pastures and rangeland in Texas is warm-season perennial grasses. These grasses have restricted to non-existent growth after the first killing-frost and during the winter ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. This winter’s heavy snowfall and cold temperatures forced some Montana ranchers to take cattle ...

The University of Missouri Extension will offer two workshops in Southwest Missouri later this month for cattle producers and farmers to help them manage their cattle and pastures through the winter.

Cow-calf producers had plenty of time to bring cattle from summer pastures, to shelter around farmsteads and to fenced corn stubble fields for late grazing prior to winter. Northeast South Dakota ...