For the health-conscious consumer, time spent reading the nutrient profiles of food packages is an important strategy to maintain a well-balanced diet. In much the same way, beef producers who know ...

Mature hay is hay. It may be brome hay, prairie hay or any other type of hay. But in the end, it’s just hay until it’s been tested. Forage tests tell the tale of whether hay is of good quality and ...

Rain and colder weather are signs of the beginning of winter and time for cattle producers and horse owners to start feeding hay. The first step in developing a hay-feeding program is to test all hay ...

When livestock producers buy hay, they usually think in terms of how many tons they need to feed their livestock through the winter, said David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist and interim ...

One of the first considerations when purchasing hay is that it should be based on individual animal requirements. For optimal production, forage quality should be matched as closely as possible to the ...

Hay can’t be evaluated by touch, smell, color or any other on-the-spot technique. To get a true measure of forage quality, hay has to be tested. At a recent meeting of the Wilkes County, Georgia, ...

Wet weather conditions during hay season will likely result in lower forage quality. That is why it is important to test hay to determine forage quality according to Sarah Kenyon, agronomy specialist ...

KSU has opened an extension office in Barren County with a new hay testing lab. It's hay cutting season for Kentucky farmers and there's a new resource to improve profits. Kentucky State University ...

Farmers and stockmen who aren’t periodically soil testing their hay fields and pastures probably aren’t maximizing their bottom lines. That’s the message delivered Tuesday by Dr. Joe Brummer, a forage ...

Wet conditions in Kentucky this spring and summer have created an abundance of hay in the state for the upcoming winter feeding season. The increase in volume is welcome news to many hay and livestock ...