Corn and soybean meal price projections are lower, but on-farm hay inventories are down.

Many producers in the southeast U.S. have made the switch to making baleage or use both hay and baleage as stored forage in their operations during the year.

Many of us live in places where the weather may change at the blink of an eye. We may have four layers on in the morning, but by afternoon, we have shed three of them: our “I’m warming up” layer, our “It’s past midmorning” layer and our “Dang, it’s a different climate” layer, which leads to …

In a graduate-level nutrition class, I had an exchange with a professor that I still remember.

When the weather is right and hayfields are mowed, there will be many farmers looking over the fence at pastures as an opportunity to make more bales. While it is important to get hay reserves built back up on your farm, I would caution producers against baling pastures.

At this point in the year, beef producers have eliminated a good portion of those winter haystacks and are hoping green spring grass is in the future.