Input costs are high this year and this has put a focus on good quality silage for two reasons. Firstly, having good quality silage can reduce the amount of expensive purchased feed you need to buy.

As seed companies phase out brown midrib corn silage hybrids, producers are reevaluating how to maintain forage quality and ...

With BMR corn becoming less available, short-stature corn is emerging as a silage option that can still improve fiber ...

ST. PAUL -- Every year, dairy producers are challenged with harvesting high-quality silage within a critical timeframe working around the weather, getting it to a storage structure and packing it ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

Silage is expensive to produce, never mind wasting it due to poor pit management. With that in mind, independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy gives his tips on how to make the most of what you've ...

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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, ...

Has your silage preserved well this year? Is it dry or wet? What is quality like or do you know? Knowing the answer to these type of questions will have performance and cost implications for your ...

IN RECENT years silage has become less significant in the diet of finishing cattle since ad lib concentrate diets can compete economically with good quality silage and are more efficient than average ...

Silage Pits and Bales are being opened all around the country as the recent weather is making housing necessary to avoid damaging paddocks and, more importantly, maintain intakes and animal ...