We have a cow-calf operation in North Central Nebraska. Usually around 900-1000 head on the place at any given time including mother cows/heifers, take-in cattle, replacement heifers, weaned calves, bulls, and 8 head of horses.
We feed big round bales through a proccessor pulled behind a tractor. The proccessor grinds the bales up and strings it out in a windrow, and it can carry 5 bales at a time. We typically feed around 35 bales a day. The hay is strung out on the hay meadows in nice weather to distribute the manure for fertilizer, where it's scattered with a drag harrow in the spring. During bad weather the hay is strung out behind tree groves first planted by my great-granddad around the turn of the century(1900, not 2000) that have had more trees planted in them almost every spring since.
The only thing that comes inside the barn are cows that need calves pulled, and cold/wet newborn calves during bad weather until they get dried off.
We also feed our weaned calves in bunks with a mixer wagon that feeds a mix of ground hay, corn, and molasses. Used to have corn silage in that mix too but haven't planted corn the past two years.
Also, we feed cake to our cows in the winter before calving season starts.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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