Every livestock producer understands the stakes: forage quality determines herd health, milk production and profitability. Yet many operations still lose 20–30% of nutritional value between field and ...

Q: Can you share a little about your custom silage harvesting schedule and what states you travel to? We’ve got four chopper machines running in different locations, and we travel from Texas, Oklahoma ...

With corn silage harvesting well under way, Karla Hernandez, South Dakota State University Extension forages field specialist, shares some tips to help get the best out of this crop. For starters, ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

Brazil is famous for corn and soybeans, but in the country’s toughest, driest regions, farmers are starting to look more ...

Corn silage has always been a major feed component in dairy and beef rations. However, this year’s weather is making harvesting corn silage a challenge for many areas of the state. Northwest and ...

Each spring, there’s usually a very long list of things producers need to complete on a timely basis. A couple years ago, I asked several very successful farmers what made the difference between doing ...

How dairy producers can use technology in the field to unlock forage quality. The CLAAS JAGUAR line of forage harvesters give dairy producers a leg up during harvest time. With a wide variety of ...

Small-grains like triticale are a familiar part of the forage program on many dairy farms. But deciding when to harvest them ...

Summer is on its way, and many farmers have been utilising the warmer, drier weather to harvest silage. If you’ve just completed harvesting silage, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Technical Consultant Aaron ...