In agriculture, rain typically poses two major pain points: challenges to field traffic and harvesting timelines.

The growing season has a large impact on our corn silage, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have options to manage the variables.

In this episode, we will introduce you to the 2024 Nexus Innovation Award winners. They were recently recognized at the Professional Dairy Producers Business Conference.

A new seed treatment for use when planting corn for silage promises to increase total silage tonnage, with more of it being digestible, and decrease enteric methane emissions when the silage is fed.

For the first time, we welcome Progressive Forage’s Joy Hendrix to the podcast studio as she visits with Katie Raver from Rock River Laboratory for a regional analysis of forage quality and what to keep in mind for the 2024 growing season. Then Tyrell and Elanco’s Frank White discuss the results of a recent study analyzing the benefits of monensin products in a cow-calf setting. Finally, don’t miss out on an absolutely riveting conversation on the perils of importing exotic wildlife testicles from overseas.

The new corn silage hybrid evaluation index, MILK2024, is now available – 18 years after its predecessor.

Over the past nine to 12 months, our dairy operations have felt the margin and profitability crunch. So what can you do to be more profitable in your business? What are the critical areas that can be focused on to increase cash flow?

Timing of alfalfa cutting is a critical management practice to maximize yield potential, quality, and profitability.

The 2023 corn crop was challenged by a wide variation of environmental challenges. Drought in the Southwest and western Corn Belt to late-season rainfall in the Ohio Valley and eastern Corn Belt, the weather challenged the crop.