If one month has passed since you filled the silo, initial corn silage fermentation is likely complete. That means it is time to pull a sample and send it off ...

Corn silage is a high-yielding, high-energy, low-protein forage commonly used to feed dairy heifers, lactating dairy cows and beef. The fermentation process that is created in silos and bunkers helps ...

A silo full of freshly chopped corn silage is a potential death trap, warns John G. Pollock of the New York Rural Health and Safety Council. Complex chemical reactions involved in the formation of ...

With the limited hay crops in some areas this summer, beef producers may want to consider harvesting corn silage to supplement the cow herd this winter. Corn silage can be a very cost effective ...

Corn that was drought-stressed this year will have higher toxic nitrate levels, so be very careful during the silage-making process. Corn silage with high nitrate levels poses a higher risk to form ...

Silos were built to hold fermented livestock feed known as ensilage, or silage. One of the great and venerable problems in animal husbandry was the difficulty of storing, or “carrying over,” enough ...

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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Soon South Dakota dairy and livestock producers will have data to help them select corn silage hybrids that will yield the nutritional benefits their herds need to produce quality ...

Dear Readers: Here’s a Johnnie that was published originally in September 2014. I hope to have answers to newer questions starting again next week. Good morning, Johnnie: Why have all the silos in the ...