These four measurements can help you determine what your herd needs are for additional nutrition. Harvested forages, like hay, are a significant investment for cattle nutrition programs. The U.S.

The biggest influence the results will have is on cutting dates, which were all over the place for the first cut given the ...

“Now is the time to prepare forage and cattle for the fall and winter grazing season,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Proper management of cattle and ...

When grass is limited and/or cow body condition needs to improve, early weaning may be a viable option for cow-calf producers ...

A team of researchers led by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) studied the effects of feeding hemp silage to dairy cows and published their findings in Nature Food. If the hemp ...

An abundance of new information on an age-old feed has led Extension specialists from Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to offer a one-day conference for cattle producers, ...

Stocking the milking platform at 5.5 livestock units a hectare is challenging. But with good grass management and making quality silage at 12MJ of metabolisable energy/kg dry matter and 16% crude ...

AMES, Iowa — New information on an age-old feed has led Extension specialists from Iowa State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln to offer a conference for cattle producers, nutrition ...

ALLISON, Iowa -Allison cattle producers Edward and Randal Johnson and Scott Bruns have been using cover crops to protect soil and extend forage supplies for several years. They shared their ...

Magnesium is an essential mineral in preventing milk fever in fresh calvers. When dry cow nutrition is based on a total mixed ...