Corn silage performance comes down to a handful of decisions in the field and at the bunk that ultimately show up in how cows ...

The combination of the unusually warm winter and dry conditions has resulted in wheat being further along in maturity than is ...

How much of your silage never makes it in front of your cows? University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor Luiz ...

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 ...

Decreasing availability of irrigation water has led dairies and feedyards to increasingly look to sorghum to meet their ...

In intensive cattle production systems, silage is the insurance farmers need for their feeding needs. According to livestock experts, away from grazing, feed storage for deferred use both as hay and ...

Now is the time for final preparations for the corn silage harvest. Years ago, experts recommended that corn silage be harvested at the black-layer stage of maturity. In recent years, research and ...

Sorghum is one plant sometimes used for silage. Scientists at Kansas State University say this fermented livestock feed produces nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but that they have uncovered a ...

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 ...

James Mugerwa, a mixed farmer in Mukono explains that protecting animal feed quality is an important aspect of grain feed stocks. Mugerwa says that to minimise spoilage, smallholder farmers can bag ...

Farmers are being warned not to cut corners on machinery maintenance ahead of silage season after new figures show vehicle ...