Hay bales can be an effective and reliable feed source for livestock as the weather turns cold and dreary. When it comes to feeding or selling hay through the winter, one thing that should never be ...

A recent Miner Institute Farm Report article dug into best practices around creating samples, and how to get results that are ...

Silage analysis will be more important than ever this autumn to understand how drought conditions have affected forage variability. In many cases, farmers will be faced with high dry matter (DM) ...

We were joking with our son the other night that he has been replaced as my wife’s favorite child by the dog. However, it appears Zues is trying to work his way down the list. He began by digging up ...

Silage quality is key to good animal performance and reducing winter feed costs during the housing period. Grass silage is the basis of most winter feeding systems in this country, and satisfactory ...

Forage and feed quality testing is startlingly behind other agricultural quality measures in terms of technology utilization. While soil sampling is widely considered useful, many producers struggle ...

I have been getting lots of questions about measuring the moisture content of a hay crop prior to baling. The moisture content needs to be below 18% before making a round bale. But estimating moisture ...

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 ...

What can you do to take the mystery out of harvesting corn silage? Corn whole plant moisture is key for proper fermentation and is often the most difficult criteria to determine. Harvesting too wet ...

JUNEAU | Dodge County Forage Council has conducted its first corn silage dry down. Corn that was planted in early May came in around 68 to 72 percent moisture. Corn that was planted mid to late May ...