BROOKINGS, S.D. – With many flooded and saturated fields in South Dakota this fall, harvesting silage before corn dries past desired moisture levels or frost occurs may be a challenge for some ...

1 College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China 2 College of Resources and Environment, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China Plant essential oils have ...

What Can You Learn From Last Year’s Harvest? Looking back at last year’s harvest is one of the simplest ways to make better silage decisions for the year ahead. Yield, forage quality and what shows up ...

Winter feeding is well and truly underway. An extended grazing period – after the 2018 summer drought – allowed farmers to boost fodder supplies, while also leading to a late housing in some cases.

This past winter has again demonstrated the value of cereal silage as a forage source for cattle feeders. Many of you will recall that hay supplies were tight last fall, particularly in Western Canada ...

A well preserved, good quality silage is yellow-green to brown-green in colour with a clean vinegar-like odour. Heat damaged silage, however, is light to dark brown in colour with a distinct cured ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvesting at moisture levels above 70 % will not only yield less, but will result in seepage and undesirable clostridia fermentation. Clostridia bacteria are very inefficient and convert forage ...

Sunflower producers concerned about some of their crop not harvestable for seed should consider them for forage. “The decision to harvest sunflowers as forage, particularly silage, requires careful ...

Producers have a variety of options when it comes to forage crops as livestock feed sources. Many other forages other than corn can be ensiled or put up as hay, depending on weather conditions and ...

I grew up in town and one of my distinct memories of summer and autumn when we went to visit our farming friends was the smell of silage. As a kid, silage always seemed to stink and it is a smell ...