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With record-setting early spring weather, parts of southern Michigan are seeing alfalfa fields with above-average growth.
Some of these fields may have been slated to be planted to corn and along with the early growth, the question is whether producers should consider taking the first cutting off these fields before planting to corn?
Renting pasture for grazing livestock is a fairly common practice in Indiana but one a Purdue Extension forage specialist says landowners and producers need to carefully discuss.
Just when hay stocks are at a low, and haylage inventories are dwindling at the end of another season, Mother Nature is giving us a gift in the form of an early spring. Throughout much of the country most hay is three to four weeks ahead of normal.
Weeds compete with crops for nutrients, space, sunlight and water. Compared to other crops, corn is particularly sensitive to early season weed competition.
Excellent-quality hay has a high nutritive value and animal intake. Hay quality can differ widely within a single species grown in the same location due to management.
You cannot till or no-till your way out of a soil quality problem. Additional organic inputs such as crop residue, manure and cover crops are needed to increase organic matter and water-holding capacity, improve aggregate stability and water infiltration and build soil quality in many other ways.
Rain makes grain, and forages too, according to Ohio State University Extension beef expert Stan Smith. The old saying about precipitation and crop production applies especially to stockpiled forages in a year when frequent rains precluded forage producers from harvesting hay at its peak quality.
Dairy nutrition is a continuously evolving science that attempts to explain and predict the complex interactions between the feed a cow consumes and the measurable outputs of production including milk, weight gain and reproduction.
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