Concerned about your stored corn silage? Nutrition expert John Goeser shares what he’s seeing in the lab and what you can expect from a silage quality and digestibility perspective.
Want a peek into the 2019 silage season? Have a look at the weather forecast going into spring, current supply availability and corn silage price expectations for the season.
Strengthening milk price and weakening feed costs have improved. The interactions of projected production growth and strengthening Class III price for 2020 remain to be seen.
Heating is a natural result of the fermentation process that occurs during ensiling. Learn how to avoid valuable dry matter and nutrient loss when significant heating occurs.
Minnesota is trying to keep its state’s dairy industry going after the state legislator passed an $8 million plan called the Minnesota Dairy Assistance and Relief Initiative.
Silage harvest needs to be fast, but not so fast that you don’t take a few minutes to check kernel processor accuracy. Dr. Brian Luck has created an in-field kernel assessment that’s as easy as taking a picture.
Officials say the more than 1,800 dairy cows that died in a blizzard in southern Washington state earlier this month were a nearly $4 million loss, not including the lost milk production.
As silage is opened and fed, it is once again exposed to air. Oxygen allows aerobic organisms that survived the ensiling process — such as bacilli, molds and especially yeasts — to grow.
