Test The Water
To make sure your silage corn is at the right moisture level for ensiling, send a sample to a lab for testing, suggests Joe Lauer. A moisture test is...
Side By Side For Silage
Minnesotan mixes corn and soybeans in windrows. Allan Wake always wanted to make corn silage early, before northern Minnesota's fall weather made fields...
Keep Corn Silage, Oxygen Apart
Minimizing oxygen exposure to corn silage stored in bunkers is key to maintaining feed quality, says Chuck Schwartau, an educator with the University...
Pick A Balanced Corn Silage Hybrid
Silage yield, starch content, fiber quality, disease resistance and relative maturity are five top criteria when selecting a corn silage hybrid. That's...
Corn Silage Can Dominate Rations
If Mike Hutjens had told dairy farmers 10 years ago that two-thirds of the forage in rations should be corn silage, some might have thought he was off...
Nutrition in a Nutshell
In the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" one of the key habits that results in success is to "begin with the end in mind." We need to...
Silage Sleuth
New test analyzes silage quality A cow is still the best tester for silage palatability. But if you want to evaluate silage before it hits the bunk, you...
BMR Silage Makes Milk
Trial shows benefit in high-forage diets Brown midrib corn silage put more milk in the tank than silage made from four other types of hybrids in a recent...
Corn Maturity Affects Silage Processing
Three Washington State University studies revealed that corn silage processing is most beneficial in later stages of corn maturity.Corn was chopped at...
Bt Cuts It As Silage Corn
Most research indicates that Bt hybrids can more than pay for themselves as silage corn when European corn borers apply pressure. And, contrary to rumors,...
