A lot of Missouri cattle producers are forced to feed alternatives because of the shortage of hay and forage caused by the drought.
Dave Davis, superintendent of the University of Missouri’s Forage Systems Research Center, tells Brownfield Ag Newsthey’ve been feeding soy hulls to their 700 cow-calf herd, “We feed daily the early weaned calves and the spring cows that those cows came off of and they’re getting, based on body weight, so many pounds per head, per day.”
Davis says they went through a local feed distributor in early August to get the soy hulls locked in, “We’re meeting their nutritional requirements.
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