With new-season grass in the clamp, silage analysis is crucial to enable forward planning and to ensure livestock are rationed as effectively as possible with low-cost forage. Only by understanding ...

Feed costs are the largest cost of production throughout all segments of the beef cattle industry. As such, it is important to balance rations that meet the nutrient requirements of the cattle on a ...

Hay bales can be an effective and reliable feed source for livestock as the weather turns cold and dreary. When it comes to feeding or selling hay through the winter, one thing that should never be ...

Silage quality is key to good animal performance and reducing winter feed costs during the housing period. Grass silage is the basis of most winter feeding systems in this country, and satisfactory ...

Forage and feed quality testing is startlingly behind other agricultural quality measures in terms of technology utilization. While soil sampling is widely considered useful, many producers struggle ...

Foragetesting is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well asnon-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulatingrations, and determining potential toxicities or ...

I have been getting lots of questions about measuring the moisture content of a hay crop prior to baling. The moisture content needs to be below 18% before making a round bale. But estimating moisture ...

The water-intake method of estimating forage intake by grazing cattle can permit a valuable extension of research on semiarid grasslands, but eventually we shall require a wider applicability and ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. – Montana State University Extension specialists have released two new MontGuide factsheets on forage analysis. A new four-page MontGuide, Forage Analysis Interpretation, describes why ...