State hay market summaries for the week ending March 29, as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Market News ...

For a cow to feed a calf and retain its own body condition requires a good solid intake of essential nutrients. First-calf heifers also need more of the same nutrients to gain a couple of hundred ...

At the same time, alfalfa hay has a strong market in southeast USA. Florida has approximately 119,000 dairy cows and a well-developed horse industry that generates $6.5 billion annually.

Perhaps it is because starch and fiber take up all the oxygen in the room. From different points of time for fiber digestion ...

“It was designed to help rank the potential energy intake of different hays by lactating dairy cows. And it does this quite well, especially for legumes like alfalfa.” Grass hay ...

Selecting an alfalfa variety is a little like breeding cows. There is some give and take between maximizing yield potential and selecting a variety that will persist in our environment.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average ...