BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Producers looking for ways to reduce feed costs might consider grazing corn stalks, says Julie Walker, South Dakota State University Extension Service beef specialist and associate ...
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 ...
COLUMBIA — With hay fields singed by the drought and cattle farmers searching for feed, corn stalks have become a profitable commodity across the Midwest. The increased demand and rising price for ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Prolonged drought is prompting some Midwest farmers to sell corn stalks they typically would treat as waste to feed hungry, hay-deprived cattle. The Columbia Missourian reported that ...
Given the corn price outlook, this is not the year to ignore any “sometimes a problem” pest like corn stalk borer -- especially if you’ve encountered it in corn before. It has a tendency to persist in ...
In 2003, Mike Fortune left a budding career as a stockbroker and moved to Asheville to start an urban farm. He eventually found a willing landowner on Greenhill Avenue, in the city’s west end, with a ...
Just about all dairy farmers in the U.S. supplement the forages they feed their dairy cows with grain. The most common grain fed is corn. It’s high in starch and is often the cheapest energy source we ...
EBEY ISLAND — Kim Lofgren snapped ears of corn off the stalks with apparent ease, working efficiently down a row of sweet corn and tossing the ears to her niece, Katherine Eng, who stacked them in a ...
COLUMBIA — Prolonged drought is prompting some Midwest farmers to sell discarded corn stalks to feed hay-deprived cattle. A source reports that area corn farmers are collecting stalks that usually are ...