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Very wet spring conditions have made it almost impossible to spread manure in April and much of May, and some of what was spread would have been better remaining in storage – that is unless, like many, storage was about to overflow.
Prussic acid poisoning can cause problems in cattle that consume sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass hybrids and forage sorghums. Forage sorghums have the highest potential for prussic acid poisoning and sudangrasses have the lowest of the three forages.
Potato leafhoppers are active and alfalfa should be scouted for these insects capable of inflicting economic losses to stands, reports Mike Gray, University of Illinois Extension entomologist.
High-moisture corn offers growers and feeders several advantages, especially when high feed costs are a major concern. High-moisture corn is a high-energy feed for both dairies and feedlots. There definitely are more advantages than disadvantages for operators who are feeding corn.
Nobody wants to mess with a wet dog or a wet bale of hay. Baling wet hay can increase moldiness, heat-damage crude protein or occasionally result in hay fires.
The impact that wet weather has on your silage dry matter content depends to a great extent on where it’s stored. Tower silos aren’t affected much at all; neither are silage bags as long as you do like many farmers do and fold a hunk of bag plastic over the feeding face.
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