A lot goes into making high-quality hay. Perhaps the primary way to produce the kind of hay that will give top milk and meat production is to cut the hay at the optimum stage of maturity. Whether it’s ...

Apart from providing the day-to-day fodder requirements for the farmer, excess forage from Brachiaria can be dried and stored as hay for use during the dry season when pasture is scarce to maintain ...

Farmers work tirelessly throughout the spring and summer to grow, cut, and store hay to feed their livestock throughout the year. But how exactly is the hay created? Haymaking is a process – and it ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

After another week of dry weather, the drought has worsened across the South. The latest drought update from the NOAA shows ...

The Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference provides insights and in-depth help on turning grass into green dollars with regular milk checks. The biennial meeting, July 7-8 in Springfield, Mo., promotes ...