Dairy farmers in the Northeast can improve water quality and boost the profitability of their operations by changing the timing and method of applying manure to their fields in the fall, along with ...

The low-flying helicopter buzzing cornfields across Worcester County the past couple of weeks delivered a payload that will improve both the soil and the bottom line for more than a dozen farms ...

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 ...

With corn silage harvesting well under way, Karla Hernandez, South Dakota State University Extension forages field specialist, shares some tips to help get the best out of this crop. For starters, ...

Q: Can you share a little about your custom silage harvesting schedule and what states you travel to? We’ve got four chopper machines running in different locations, and we travel from Texas, Oklahoma ...

Top Fodder Silage Victorian state co-ordinator Frank Mickan said last week at an Allansford workshop, hosted by Dairy Australia, that wet conditions meant “the possibility of last year happening again ...

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, ...

With first-cut silage having come off up to a month later than usual this year, second and third cuts aren’t projected to be much better. So, with a hot summer forecast, many farmers are looking for ...