Winter mud – how to save your pastures during hay feeding season!

Mud can affect cattle performance. When cattle have to walk through mud it increases their energy demand, in turn feed consumption increases to meet their ...

Mud increases animal stress and can lead to increased production costs. It is important for producers to know how mud limits livestock production and ways to ...

Reducing Pasture Damage During Winter Feeding

Stockpiling pasture for deferred winter grazing can be an excellent way to extend the grazing season, keep livestock "out on pasture" and out of ...

Have a plan for winter hay feeding

It is best to utilize a small area and not allow animals access to the entire pasture. Hay is hauled to this area throughout the winter to be ...

9 tips to reduce pasture damage during winter feeding - Farm Progress

1. Create a sacrifice pasture or lot. · 2. Split sacrifice area into two or more sections. · 3. Target feed to attract livestock. · 4. Feed hay ...

Unrolling hay | CattleToday.com - Cattle, Cow & Ranching Community

I unroll all my rolls with a tractor no matter the condition. When its muddy, try to find the least muddy which is higher ground or thick grass ...

Managing your pastures for winter - Farm and Dairy

Do you have a heavy-use pad that you can put livestock on when the conditions are bad? Can you reduce your stocking density, by using multiple ...

How to Manage Wet Winter Grazing - On Pasture

Feeding enough hay for only two to three days at a time, creating some competition between cows, in-ring or fence line feeders, and storing ...

Winter Hay Feeding Strategies | University of Maryland Extension

Feeding hay out of bale feeders is most often done in a confinement setting or designated feeding area, but can also be done on pasture or ...

Mud: a residue of winter hay feeding | Hay and Forage Magazine

Avoid overgrazing: Rather than offer cattle extended time periods on pasture when soil conditions are wet and plant growth is slow, designate a ...

Tips for dealing with wet, muddy winter conditions in cattle feedyards

If this is not possible, simply lay whole round bales of bedding or even hay on areas with less mud. Cattle will work the material off, using it ...

The Season of Mud - ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture

The Season of Mud · Mud is a challenge on any farm and all the best efforts will not prevent it from happening. · A heavy-use area or sacrificial ...

Pasture Care and Winter Feeding - Penn State Extension

During winter feeding, rain and snow are not friends to pastures. Add the typical 30s at night and 40s in the day, and you can quickly have a ...

Field Notes for The Week Of 11-22-21 Tis the Hay Feeding Season!

this is a good reason to avoid grazing our pastures too hard going into the winter season. ... winter feeding but can be costly, but hay saving ...

Winter Feeding: Watch For Mud | The Cattle Site

The hay feeding "pads" allow cattle from different pastures access to hay and can be scraped off and spread on pastures. Round bales of hay can be added as ...

Recovering from Mud - WVU Extension - West Virginia University

These winter feeding areas need to be revegetated as soon as possible to prevent soil and soil-fertility loss, provide forage production in the coming summer, ...

What to do with winter feeding, pasture areas - Farm Progress

Spread hay and manure where most needed. Piles of wasted hay and accumulated manure need to be removed and spread uniformly on the fields that ...

Options for Managing Mud in Pastures This Winter | Ohio BEEF ...

Cattle on Stockpiled grass in January · Field after cows finished feeding stockpiled fescue and 600# round bales of hay · Heavy use pad with roof ...

Intensive Grazing - Winter Grazing Strategies - Cattle Farming

Always keep an emergency hay reserve for summer drought, winter pasture shortages, feed during ice storms, to protect pastures during the spring thaw, and to ...

Improving Mud Damaged Winter Pastures - YouTube

As spring is upon us, pastures and paddocks that served as cattle feeding areas this winter are a sea of trampled and pugged up mud.