COLUMBIA — Prolonged drought is prompting some Midwest farmers to sell discarded corn stalks to feed hay-deprived cattle. A source reports that area corn farmers are collecting stalks that usually are ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Producers looking for ways to reduce feed costs might consider grazing corn stalks, says Julie Walker, South Dakota State University Extension Service beef specialist and associate ...

COLUMBIA — With hay fields singed by the drought and cattle farmers searching for feed, corn stalks have become a profitable commodity across the Midwest. The increased demand and rising price for ...

Your corn is about to get combined. Maybe you are wondering if you should bale some of the stalks. Is it worth it? What are corn stalk bales worth? One way to look at it is from the cost stand point.

Feeding cattle can be a labor intensive process, and research at Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, North Dakota, provides some guidance on practices that can ease the time ...

Some drought-stricken corn may have more value as cattle feed than grain this year. Droughty corn offers options when feed supplies are tight, but producers should think the process through, says ...

Nebraska has 10.5 million corn acres and 1.5 million beef cows — more than enough acres of corn residue for grazing beef cows ...

LA PORTE CITY, Iowa --- Corn plants are almost gone, but fields aren't empty. The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture Crops and Weather Report said less than 7 percent of corn and very few soybeans ...

Given the corn price outlook, this is not the year to ignore any “sometimes a problem” pest like corn stalk borer -- especially if you’ve encountered it in corn before. It has a tendency to persist in ...

BROKEN BOW - Broken Bow rancher and cowboy poet R.P. Smith said drought in the last few years made things "go backward" real fast, so he started looking at what might work better for his operation.

EBEY ISLAND — Kim Lofgren snapped ears of corn off the stalks with apparent ease, working efficiently down a row of sweet corn and tossing the ears to her niece, Katherine Eng, who stacked them in a ...