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Oxygen: Humans can’t live without it while optimal silage fermentation can’t proceed with it. In fact, oxygen is so detrimental to anyone looking to put up quality silage that years of study and scores of management protocols have given rise to an industry that has a sole purpose of preventing oxygen from degrading silage.
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series.
Silage’s drive from point A to point B: This probably sounds like a bad agriculture cartoon, as silage clearly does not sit down in a car and drive; however, forage preservation can be compared to a situation we have all encountered when driving to a new destination.
“Mycotoxin” is a general term used for secondary metabolites which have been shown to have some associated toxicity issues and are produced quite naturally by some fungi (molds). Mycotoxin production is sometimes stimulated by certain stressors.
Grober Nutrition, a family company based in Cambridge, Ontario, is showing their support of the Canadian dairy industry through the promotion of education in agriculture at the University of Guelph.
Having been involved with robotic milking since early 2002, I have experienced many success stories regarding robotic milking all across Canada. During that time, I have also seen farms that have struggled and questioned why they made the change to robotic milking. In some instances, we have even seen some robots come out, but the success stories far outweigh the farms that find it hard to adapt to robotics.
The use of a fungicide on silage corn has been a topic of debate in areas where leaf disease pressure has been higher over the past few years. Diseases in corn, such as northern corn leaf blight, grey leaf spot, anthracnose stalk rot and Gibberella ear rot, have the potential to cause a significant decrease in quality and yield.
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