The wide usage of large package, round bales for feeding beef herds has made hay feeding more labor efficient, but may offer a number of management challenges to producers who wish to maintain superior hay quality and cattle performance.

Tired of looking out across your pastures and hay fields and seeing that “sea of yellow” every spring?

Native grasses have relatively low fertility requirements, and recent increases in fertilizer costs have placed a premium on low input production options.

Forage producers need to get out into their fields to assess the health of plants as they begin to break dormancy after a particularly harsh winter, a Purdue Extension forage specialist says.

Late March or early April is the time to plant spring forage cocktails for beef cattle grazing.

Paying attention to detail is something all producers can do to improve their forage quality.