After corn silage comes off, dairy farmers will often consider seeding fields to winter rye as a cover crop. It’s an easy, familiar option that establishes reliably in the fall and helps take up ...

Corn silage is an essential component of many dairy and beef cattle rations. The goal is to make a high-quality feedstuff, but to achieve this requires planning before harvest, monitoring plant ...

With corn silage harvesting well under way, Karla Hernandez, South Dakota State University Extension forages field specialist, shares some tips to help get the best out of this crop. For starters, ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility that makes it easy to love. Agronomy experts at the University of Vermont, North Dakota State University and the ...

Corn silage has always been a major feed component in dairy and beef rations. However, this year’s weather is making harvesting corn silage a challenge for many areas of the state. Northwest and ...

Q: Can you share a little about your custom silage harvesting schedule and what states you travel to? We’ve got four chopper machines running in different locations, and we travel from Texas, Oklahoma ...

FARGO - The favorable corn-growing weather in August and September has offset some of the corn crop's delayed development resulting from the combination of tough spring planting conditions and a cool ...

Summer is on its way, and many farmers have been utilising the warmer, drier weather to harvest silage. If you’ve just completed harvesting silage, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Technical Consultant Aaron ...

Harvesting at over 40% dry matter reduces digestibility of fiber and starch, and may cause packing issues. More specifically, the optimum silage moisture ranges from 55-60% for upright oxygen-limiting ...