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 ...
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 ...
Cut winter forage at flag leaf stage rather than boot stage to maximize digestibility and increase milk production per pound.
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 ...
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 ...
After corn silage comes off, dairy farmers will often consider seeding fields to winter rye as a cover crop. It’s an easy, ...
How dairy producers can use technology in the field to unlock forage quality. The CLAAS JAGUAR line of forage harvesters give dairy producers a leg up during harvest time. With a wide variety of ...
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, ...
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 ...