DairyNZ senior farm systems specialist Ron Pellow. Dairy farmers’ pickled pasture – silage – depends on good inputs, DairyNZ says. The industry-good body said that, to produce high-quality grass ...

In a previous Hoard’s Dairyman Intel article, contributor Steve Martin noted that we shouldn’t ignore protein levels in corn silage when feeding dairy cows. Admittedly, I have somewhat ignored this ...

Two years ago, while sampling from a silage pile on a central California dairy, a nutritionist was buried under tons of packed feed when the 30'-tall pile gave way. He suffered a broken back. Although ...

Corn silage – it’s the gold standard and steadfast staple of lactating dairy rations. But corn is also a highly resource-dependent crop, requiring fertile soil, ample rainfall, and crop-protection ...

This South Dakota State University Extension Silage/Earlage Calculator is designed to help corn and livestock producers answer questions regarding the value of standing fields of corn either as grain, ...

Pricing silage crops can be much more challenging than pricing grains, since they are not sold as routinely and, therefore, do not have a readily known market price. The following is a brief ...

Brazil has the conditions needed to increase beef production, in order to meet the increased worldwide demand for animal protein (Anualpec, 2014). In this context, the use of dairy males, which are ...