Focus On: Silage Management

FOCUS ON:

Silage Management
Forages, most often corn silage, make up 50 percent of the ration your lactating cows eat. That means top quality corn silage is a must for cow health and milk production.

Use these articles to help you produce the best corn silage you can.

• Too coarse, too fine or just right?
• How the test works
• 4 steps to decide if you should increase corn silage cutting height
• Improve rations with forage benchmarking
• Use benchmarking to improve the quality of your forages
• Don't snooze over silage ooze
• Test your silage before feeding it

Links

• Kansas State University's Silage site
• CDC's Safe Grain and Silage Handling

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