As the weather warms up, the demand for hay is also warming. While producers anxiously await the ability to turn cattle out to graze, the slow exit of winter weather is demanding more hay to be bought.

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It’s a Sunday family dinner at the Ramsey household – all the siblings and grandchildren are there, and fortunately for the crew, “a day of rest.”

Clean, hygienic, high-quality silage is crucial to cattle health and is dependent on understanding its proper management. However, contaminated silage remains a huge problem in the industry, with some of the biggest concerns being soil contamination and its consequences.

One late January day, as I was flaking hay off the truck to the horde of hungry bovines that surrounded and followed me, each cow acting as though she herself was entitled to every tiny stem and leaf, a strange dark figure on the fenceline a hundred yards in the distance caught my eye.