Wheat Hay-Cattle Love It

摘要

With a chance of dry weather in mid-summer, make sure quality hay is available. Here's an option. With mid-summer dry weather, there's always the possibility of parched pastures. It's important to cover that risk with the availability of quality, palatable hay at a good price. Wheat hay, if harvested right, can fit the bill, just like it does for stackers and other cattle in winter grazing programs. "The cattle love it They will eat it even if it is poor quality," says Keith Hansen, head of NutritionServices in Hereford, TX. Hansen, whose company services some 140 feedyards with a 2-million-plus capacity, sees wheat hay as a quality forage for all cattle. The highest quality hay can have an 18% protein count, is very palatable, with a sweet taste that cattle like.