For the past 50 years, the Sleichter family has provided the hay for the bucking horses and bulls at the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo in Abilene, Kansas. It started in the 1970s with Jack Sleichter, who was ...

I am a regular reader of your weekly column. Thank you for the good work you are doing in educating us on many topics in livestock keeping. Like any other farmer, I have had great challenges with feed ...

Costs of feeding hay vary with quality. Feeding low-quality hay is expensive because additional supplement is needed for meeting the animal's nutritional requirements. It is important to buy or ...

Carson Roberts is the state forage specialist with University of Missouri Extension. He said to increase profits and incentivize more supply, costs need to fall. “The low hanging fruit? Hay,” he said.

This phrase baffled me when I was young. What did it really mean? My friend Kevin, who grew up on a farm and taught me about baling hay, told me that it has two meanings. The first, literally, was to ...

Anyone can make hay while the sun shines, but it takes a special type of business entrepreneur to make hay in the rain. And, say some, that’s the best time. Years ago, a business partner of Steve ...

This time of year I love seeing big round bales of hay. Something about hay bales makes me feel good. Maybe it’s because I see man and nature assuring cattle and horses future meals. Maybe it’s ...

For the past several years, Moore has been trying his hand at the art of making hay the old way in this Carroll County community. A collector of antique farm machinery and a lover of workhorses, he ...