Stellar Silage
With ethanol-driven corn prices still above $3, it's time to take your corn silage management skills to an even higher level to optimize this valuable...
Early Silage Corn Harvest Likely In Wisconsin, Minnesota
Silage corn harvest may be two weeks early this year in much of Wisconsin and possibly Minnesota, says Joe Lauer, University of Wisconsin extension corn agronomist...
Perfect Piles
Storing silage in drive-over piles instead of bunkers often results in higher losses. But that doesn't have to be the case, says Kansas State University...
Worth The Trouble
Planting twin-row corn for silage requires extra effort and expense. But it's a paying proposition, say several Wisconsin growers and specialists who...
Corn Silage Cuts The Crap
Feeding corn silage instead of alfalfa haylage or hay can reduce the amount of manure a cow produces as well as its nitrogen content. After 10 years of...
Second Corn Harvest
When Randy Shaver fields questions from dairy producers about ensiled cornstalks, he often refers them to the Koepke family. There's a real interest in...
Company Unveils Silage Web Site
A new Web site devoted to forage information, research data and news has been introduced by Lallemand Animal Nutrition....
Extending The Season
Since he started custom baling cornstalks, Ryan Handlos' business has increased nine-fold. In 1998 my first year of custom baling I made 1,000 cornstalk...
Corn Silage Cover Crops
Cover crops seeded into silage corn won't reduce yields, will hold soil and nutrients on sloping land and can jump-start the next year's forage crop....
Beans Boost Corn Silage Protein
Intercropping European climbing beans with corn can increase corn silage protein levels, say University of Wisconsin researchers....
