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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One idea is to reduce forage demand. For spring-calving cows, this means weaning calves. Weaning can reduce cow forage dry ...
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 ...
A farmer harvests corn in rural Garrison on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)   Buy Photo As ...
LA PORTE CITY, Iowa --- Corn plants are almost gone, but fields aren't empty. The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Crops and Weather Report said less than 7 percent of corn and very few soybeans ...
FARGO - The increase in corn acreage in North Dakota has many producers exploring harvest options that reduce cost or spread the harvest window. For livestock producers, harvesting corn as ...
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 ...