• Use silage inoculants to improve fermentation. Liquid inoculants may be more effective in dry silage. • If piling or using bunker silos, use extra heavy tractors for packing and pack no more than 6 ...

Back and forth, pushing and packing. This is how Jason Feldhaus, a partner at Reisch Farms near Howard, is spending the last few days of August and into September - packing corn silage. "I always joke ...

Vaishali Malde, the marketing director at Packaging Industries Limited explain the science behind silage storage and rules that must never be broken. 1. Climate change is the greatest threat to food ...

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 ...

QUINCY, Ill., Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2018 corn harvest is fast approaching in the U.S., but like the growing season itself, it's at the mercy of Mother Nature. Even in America's heartland, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...

Iowa livestock farmers who’ve seen their pastures dry up and their hay supply dwindle may be able to find another source to feed their animals. Corn stalks can be chopped up and turned into silage.

FARGO - Even before ethanol production, corn was the king of dairy feeds, especially as the forage of corn silage. Advances in corn hybrid genetics have presented many improvements in the production ...

High-quality corn silage often is an economical substitute for some of the grain in finishing and in dairy rations, and it can be an important winter feed for cow-calf producers. All too often, though ...

MANDAN, N.D. — Bill Klesalek faced drought in 2020, but hopes the feed he saved from the wet 2019 will get him through this winter. Two years ago he was up to 500 cows, but has cut 350 cow-calf pairs, ...

JUNEAU – Dodge County Forage Council will be conducting weekly corn silage moisture tests this year on Sept. 1, 8, and 15. Harvesting corn to wet can reduce nutrient values created by run off. Wet ...