Experts discuss the merits of switching from small square bales to either wrapped round bales or bagged haylage and silage for a small dairy farm.

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 ...

As the time changes, I think I will have to bring the cows in at night. We can’t complain with this as we are nearly into ...

Storing cattle feed such as silage in bags may look simple, but there’s a great deal of planning that has to be done to make sure it is successful. Aimee Wertz-Lutz, Extension beef specialist with ...

“By knowing exactly what nutrients your forage provides, you can fine-tune rations, avoid toxicity risks and stretch your ...

Feeding low-potassium silage to autumn-calving cows during the transition period has helped a Carmarthenshire dairy farmer cut the incidence of milk fever to 5% from a peak of 20%. Iwan Francis has ...

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 ...

An autumn block-calving herd has moved to a new site on farm, replaced a mixer wagon with self-feed silage and increased herd size by 120 cows. Cost of production for the setup – which achieves 54% ...

Winter housing is now underway in most parts of the country and with this, pits of silage and cuts of bale-silage are being opened and fed out to cattle.

In recent weeks, there have been an increasing number of calls about a shortage of feed and how to stretch a limited supply of silage up to the time of turnout. There does not appear to be a ...

Producing top quality, palatable and nutritious silage is never easy, especially when farming in Scotland’s unpredictable climate. However, Aberdeenshire animal scientists Dr George Whitelaw and his ...

From salmon hatchery to treatment plant to farm irrigation to silage to cheese. There’s nothing fishy about it – read how two primary producers are helping each other create an industry >> The bale ...