Ask before you buy | Beef Magazine

Winter is coming.  Drought, deteriorating pasture conditions and short hay inventories in Oklahoma and the surrounding states of Texas, Missouri and Kansas, has most cow-calf operations scrambling to secure hay supplies for the coming winter.  Given the current situation it can come as a relief to just find hay to purchase.  That being said, it is still important to ask for a FEED ANALYSIS REPORT of the hay before you agree to buy.  Among the consequences of wide scale lack of moisture is fields planted to produce a cereal grain crop become drought stressed and are reduced to a hay…