If you are reading this, then the world did not end in 2012. Just a couple of takes on the Mayan calendar, which some believe show the world ending in December of last year.

One of the areas we tend to have good intentions about practicing is farm safety, but sometimes our good intentions get set aside.

I realize this is not intentional, but we must make an extra effort to not only think about it, but also practice it.

It used to be so easy. We didn’t decide whether fields would be harvested for corn grain or silage until the end of the season. Usually the worst-looking corn was taken for silage.

In the past, there was very little data on corn silage quality or performance, and hybrids were chosen based on grain yield. Until recently, we ignored the nutrient qualities of our corn silage hybrids.