Forage experts say farmers should make good use of their pastures and consider rotation grazing as a way to stockpile forage. Experts: Farmers should make good use of pastures Midwestern hay supplies will be scarce this year due to a late freeze and too little rain. Stockpiling involves setting aside some of the paddocks -- usually about 25 percent -- around mid-August so it can produce forage for future grazing. Many farmers got small first cuttings of hay, which is usually the largest...

It decided to produce balanced cattle feed as part of its plans to expand business. Lakshmanan, said that the company plans to sell 1,500 tonnes to 2,000 tonnes of cattle feed a month initially in the states Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Marketing will be done through its existing poultry feed sales network. Indian company Shanthi Poultry Farm Limited has launched sale of cattle feed in the states Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The balanced cattle feed will be sold under the name of "Shanthi" Niswin...

Scientists had predicted a fall in the number of infected animals when the sub-set of older cows, which may have been exposed to contaminated cattle feed, moved through the system. Weekly figures released last weekend showed there were no cases detected last week while only nine cases have been found since the beginning of the year. There has been a dramatic fall in the number of BSE detections in Irish cattle. The most recent BSE cases found here have been in older animals, which may have...

Corn products are used not just to feed animals, but also to make high-fructose corn syrup, the sweetener of choice for such products as soft drinks and cookies. That means cattle ranchers have to pay more for animal feed that contains corn. Demand has doubled corn prices, making ingredients and animal feed more expensive. Though the increases may seem hard to swallow, Americans have been relatively fortunate when it comes to food prices, spending only about 10 percent of disposable...

And landowners with hay, even if it's grass hay, are wondering how much they should charge per bale for someone else to come in and bale the hay. The same farmer who sold him the hay was selling hay at $4 per bale in central Indiana if he delivered it. Anecdotally, one farmer reported that his alfalfa was rebounding well after the first cutting, but that grass in the mix was not coming back very well. Redman and others believe that testing forage quality before feeding it, even to beef...