Missouri Extension State forage specialist Carson Roberts explains three factors that determine profitability when putting up hay.

A lot goes into making high-quality hay. Perhaps the primary way to produce the kind of hay that will give top milk and meat production is to cut the hay at the optimum stage of maturity. Whether it’s ...

Farmers work tirelessly throughout the spring and summer to grow, cut, and store hay to feed their livestock throughout the year. But how exactly is the hay created? Haymaking is a process – and it ...

Hay-hay-hay! Jay Moore believes stacked hay is less likely to spoil than baled hay. Hay in a stack compresses under its own weight and cures by release of heat from the residual moisture in the hay ...

Aug. 9—You can prevent hay bale or barn fires if you bale hay at appropriate moistures and monitor the temperature of recently baled hay. Generally, hay will go through a heating phase within one to ...

“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 ...

Hay requires a lot of heat from the sun and air to dry the grass. Former councilor and hay farmer Mohamud Abdirahman Adan at a haystack Hay is grass, legumes, or other green plants that have been cut ...

"The percentage of moisture in hay at storage directly affects its nutrient and dry matter losses," Bade and Reeves wrote. "The higher the moisture content at storage, the greater the losses. High ...

Ask five farmers how much their hay bales weigh, and you’ll probably get five different answers — none of which are backed up by a scale ticket. “That’s because most folks think they know their bale ...

It's summer. Fields throughout western Colorado have been cut, and the hay baled, using various forms of modern technology — small bales, large bales, round and square bales, stack wagons and people ...

Rain is a needed ingredient for growing crops. However, the frequent rains in Iowa this summer have become a challenge for hay producers planning to mow, bale and store hay. Denise Schwab, beef ...