About this time last year, rice growers and cattle ranchers were looking at an interesting partnership: Could rice straw, if handled at the very green stage, be used as cattle feed? The term for this ...

Low grain prices and below-average forage availability mean forage is expensive. Therefore, limit-fed grain rations are one option for cow herds. Feeding grain rations will require feed bunks, a feed ...

Feed costs make up the largest expense in a cow-calf operation. While hay is often used to feed cows through the winter, current prices make corn a competitive option to feeding hay. Considering corn ...

The year was dry, forage is limited, last winter’s feed shortage is frozen into your memory, and you have cows to feed. With these thoughts in mind, maybe you harvested hay from the roadside—“ditch ...

When it comes to their cows, dairy farmers take seriously the old adage “you are what you eat.” What a cow eats affects her health and how much milk she produces. To keep cows at their best, many ...

Jack Daniel’s is terminating a decades-long program that provided the company’s corn byproduct “slop” to local cattle farmers ...

PALESTINE — By the time he was 8, Gene “Geno” Banks Jr. was learning the cattle trade alongside his grandfather. Now 49, Geno and his family are being honored as the 2014 Clark County Farm Family of ...

Steve Wikse, professor of large animal clinical sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University, answers this month's beef cattle health question. Q - Because of the drought, I have a ...

California's National Guard tossed bundles of hay off of helicopters to feed cows trapped in the snow. The extreme weather prevented ranchers from reaching their cattle. Videos show how officials ...