A recent study conducted by Miner Institute’s Marcos Marcondes evaluated whether reconstituted finely ground corn could serve ...

The goal in making corn silage is to efficiently harvest and store the maximum amount of digestible nutrients per unit of land area. This requires that dry matter losses due to harvest and storage be ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

FARGO - This year, late-seeded corn destined for grain may have been damaged by frost, but it still can be used. "The weather continues to complicate the farming and ranching scene," North Dakota ...

High-quality corn silage often is an economical substitute for some of the grain in finishing and in dairy rations, and it can be an important winter feed for cow-calf producers. All too often, though ...

Corn may be king when it comes to silage, but don’t sleep on corn earlage, says Sean “Monty” Montgomery, beef cattle nutritionist at Corn Belt Livestock Services Nutrition and Management, from ...

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 ...

STRATFORD — The end of the 2014 agricultural season is rapidly advancing into the North Country where dairy farmers such as Scott Mason are bringing in the last crop of the season: silage corn.