Dr. Karl Hoppe cautions against the use of barns to keep cattle sheltered against the cold. Hoppe, an Extension livestock ...
Amanda Adam says her family finished planting Mother’s Day weekend, a relief for a pork producer who needs all the feed ... slowing, cattle feeders are faced with a double dose of bad news.
One reason animals stay comfortable outside in cold weather is that they grow heavier haircoats in the winter as an ...
A central Illinois cattle producer says the extended stretch of cold weather has posed some challenges. Chase Brown, who’s ...
Frigid weather in U.S. pastures can produce prussic acid in the grass that typically feeds cattle, which can be fatal if consumed. As a result, cattle producers must regulate more closely what ...
The other half of the field has tiny shoots of beans, which will eventually grow into much cheaper cattle feed. Here the winter ... losing so much wheat to the weather. Between October 2022 ...
From there, he said cows usually feed at home for the rest of winter. Instead, Kalberer prefers to keep his cattle grazing for most of the year, weather permitting. “We don’t wean until the ...
Cattle futures fade the record high cash trade with caution heading into the Cattle on Feed Report ... Grains chop ahead of the holiday eyeing weather. Corn has been following the wheat market ...