Today we try to move round hay bales the dumbest, fastest way possible - with a giant bale spike on the front of a truck and ...

By Brock Ortner and Aaron Berger Nebraska Extension Educators With rising input costs, many cow-calf producers are looking for ways to reduce expenses and ...

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 ...

Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be easy, but it is not economical. Baled forage probably constitutes the highest percentage of winter feed cost we have wrapped up ...

Watch the step-by-step process of preparing and transporting a hay bale to feed the cows, highlighting the equipment and care involved in keeping the herd well supplied. Three migrants fall from ...

When driving in Kansas, it is easy to spot big, round hay bales that are wrapped in plastic and ready to be fed to cattle. When it is time to feed the bale, some producers put the hay with the wrap on ...

“As hay season continues, I see a lot of large round hay bales being stored outside,” says University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist Patrick Davis. If hay is not stored properly ...

Kevin and Carol Fritel who farm and have a cow-calf operation east of Rugby, N.D., near the town of Knox. They remember how their first year farming on their own was the great drought of 1988 and how ...