In early September, dairy farmers begin harvesting corn silage to store as feed for their cows and young stock. Corn silage is made by chopping the entire corn plant into small pieces and allowing it ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

For dairy farmers, “good feed promotes good production” is a guiding principle that has a direct cause-and-effect impact on milk tank volume. As a result, providing the highest quality feed is crucial ...

With the cutting of silage over the next couple of months, planning for winter forage starts now. Dairies are well accustomed to making well-preserved, high-powered silage to target for their milking ...

The Foundation just completed its first major project when it published the “Silage Safety 101” handbook, of which more than 5,000 copies have been distributed free of charge. In November 2017, the ...

Every silage pile poses potential for serious, even fatal, incidents caused by tractor rollovers, equipment runovers, falls from the silage pile or bunker, crushing and engulfment by collapsing silage ...

Having a constant flow of quality and sufficient feeds is the desire of every dairy keeper but it is not an easy feat, especially in this season of a global pandemic. But one farmer, Timothy Itiri, ...

An autumn block-calving herd has moved to a new site on farm, replaced a mixer wagon with self-feed silage and increased herd size by 120 cows. Cost of production for the setup – which achieves 54% ...

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Start with the basics of good paddock grazing management — it’s important to maximise days at grass as we move into the autumn Cattle grazing on Billy and Anne Gilmore’s farm in Tuam, Co Galway Each ...