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There are many advantages to be gained by cooperatively feeding and marketing cattle.

Drought in Oklahoma and Texas is forcing more cattle on feed, and that will impact inventory numbers in January.

Pasture conditions continue to decline, making it likely that much of the hay required for winter feeding of livestock will be imported from outside sources.

It appears that following 2006, we entered a new climate pattern, one with warmer and drier weather in the South.

The changes extend the emergency grazing period and allow feeding of hay from expiring CRP acreage.

Escalating unrest in the Middle East is not only going to continue to drive fuel prices up, there’s also a good chance it will do the same to the costs of fertilizing pastures

Dry weather has placed a lot of stress on forages and increased the risk of prussic acid and/or nitrate poisoning

Of all the factors affecting hay quality, stage of maturity when harvested is the most important and the one in which greatest progress can be made.