Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into ...

With the first stretch of warm, dry days, farmers across the state are busy cutting, raking, and baling hay. Frequent rain ...

Research conducted by Lalman and other scientists with OSU’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources indicates that using a cone-style feeder or modified cone feeder with a sheeted ...

Bale up cattle feeders have been designed to set the standard in efficient livestock feeding. Engineered with precision and built to last, this feeder is the ultimate solution for managing hay with ...

Hay feeding losses occur primarily from trampling, refusal, and leaf shatter. Some feeding loss is inevitable but can vary from as little as 2% to more than 50%. A study conducted by Arkansas ...

Image from TikTok. Brutus somehow got himself stuck in the middle of the round bale feeder. The heavy steel apparatus keeps a rolled hay bale in one spot for feeding. Brutus decided to wear it like a ...

Most livestock should consume 2%-3.5% of their body weight in dry matter every day. Calculating daily intake depends on the stage of production of the animals and size of the animals. For example ...

Therefore, feeding your horse round bales without a feeder can result in around 57% of the bale being wasted and a reduction in hay intake — horses are picky eaters compared to cattle, and as a ...

The machines’ adjustable sides means they are capable of dealing with round bales of up to 6 feet in diameter and squares of up to 5 feet long. Meanwhile, the bale feeders’ compact overall dimensions ...

Cattle eating from a round bale will digest the hay slower and more of that will be absorbed in the digestive tract, he added. “A downside of feeding hay from the round bale is that cattle will ...

Farm machinery and 120-150 round bales of hay were destroyed in the fire which was reported at 6:39 a.m. (Earleen Hinton/Shaw Media) DIXON – No one was injured Friday morning as firefighters from at ...