Liquid feed offers farmers another option

Hazel’s cows are happy healthy and growing every day thanks to her liquid feed. Photo by Amber Dawn Hodge.

Local farmers take pride in raising healthy livestock and the love of the cattle industry in Fleming County is well known.

Just ask Hazel Vice, a Hillsboro resident for 24 years.

When not tending her large herd, she loves to spend time with her three daughters, and their families, but raising cattle is her passion also.

“Cattle need protein year round.” she said. “Nutrition is the key and is a common goal we all have.”

Hazel wasn’t always in the cattle business. She and her late husband, Ira, were in the video business for many years, when they decided it was time for a change.

“My husband and I started talking about it and we needed the income, so we invested in cattle,” she said. They enjoyed raising cattle and wanted to have the best herd possible.

“After his passing, the spring was so long, there just wasn’t enough grass and the grain cost too much.”

She recalled a conversation in which they had been researching different feed options and read about liquid cattle feed and they talked about how it would help increase the herd.

So she recently invested in a lot of it.

“My cattle love it, it contains corn, wheat, barley, malt and added minerals—it has put hips on them,” Vice said. “But I have so much that it’s necessary to sell.”

Hazel is selling 250 gallons of her liquid feed for only $35.

If you want high-protein feed at a competitive price, call Hazel at 606-748-3612.