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 ...

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 ...

THIS winter’s feed requirements are already on the agenda as silage cutting begins in earnest. A reserve of extra silage will give security for the coming year whatever the weather is like. Plans ...

Farmers are looking to drought-stressed corn for silage and balage to stretch limited hay supplies. But University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Gene Schmitz said chopped corn silage ...

A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

A pest-repellent bale wrap that protects plastic against bird and rodent attack is set for launch later this spring. The product, developed by plastic film specialist Rani Plast, could help save ...

With 12 million big bales of silage made each year on more than 80% of all farms, the Teagasc survey indicates that the equivalent of 700,000 bales have mouldy surfaces. Teagasc researchers say the ...

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