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 ...

Corn silage in western Nebraska is being harvested. The silage is the result of chopping the whole corn plant and packing it in a way that will ferment. The corn is still green, but it has stopped ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

With the warm and wet conditions this season, southern rust is on the rise in Midwest corn crops. It may be time to start considering the impact that could have on corn silage and preparing to adjust ...

For more than a decade, University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines sought an answer for Magic Valley farmers in need of a short-season crop to plant after harvesting corn silage for ...

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

Feed accounts for the biggest proportion of variable costs on a dairy farm. But that cost is often unnecessarily high because farmers fail to match silage quality to the needs of different stock ...