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Understanding forage quality: Reducing ash content

May 22, 2020

Forage quality is critical to a producer’s operation. The quality of forage – good or bad – will affect an operation’s bottom line.

Equipment checkpoints for optimal drying

March 31, 2020

Jason Hartschuh

The primary purpose of our haymaking equipment is to dry hay to the optimum moisture for storage, then package densely. This winter, our shop has been a staging ground for improved hay drying.

Conditioning in reduced-lignin alfalfa

March 31, 2020

Dan Undersander

Genetically modified, reduced-lignin alfalfa is a significant game changer for alfalfa growers. It allows either higher-quality alfalfa to be harvested or delayed harvest with equal quality but higher yield.

Best timing of harvest for brown midrib forage sorghum yield, nutritive value, and ration performance

March 6, 2020

Debbie J. Cherney, Jerry H. Cherney, Greg Godwin, Quirine M. Ketterings, Sarah E. Lyons, John J. Meisinger, and Michael E. Van Amburgh

Forage sorghum is a drought- and heat-tolerant warm-season grass that can be used for silage on dairy farms. Since it requires a soil temperature of at least 60°F for planting, the recommended planting time for New York is early June, unlike corn, which is usually planted earlier in the spring.

Tips to manage harvest controllables

September 10, 2019

Proper silage harvest management is the key to quality feed all year long. We can’t always control or manage all aspects of harvest, but there are several we can. With forage inventories being low this year, it is more important than ever to make sure that the aspects of silage harvest we can manage, we do well.

Own this year’s silage harvest

August 21, 2019

John Goeser

When asked for several years what I viewed as “normal” in production agriculture, the reply was often something to the effect, “Extreme volatility in dairy and beef margins (per hundredweight) is our normal.”

Plan forage production to minimize variables

January 2, 2015

David C. Weakley

Most people are familiar with the four rations on the farm – the one formulated by the nutritionist, the one mixed, the one delivered to the bunk and the one the cows ate. But did you also know that same type of variation lurks within your forages?

Keep nutrition in mind when planning for silage harvest

July 19, 2012

John Anderson

Decisions made at chopping affect silage quality in the bunker, nutrition in the feed alley and milk in the tank. Waiting to involve your nutritionist until you are ready to feed the silage may result in extensive ration adjustments or it may be too late to fix certain issues.

Custom operator considerations

April 18, 2011

Everett D. Thomas

Early last winter, I visited a Michigan dairy farm that was having problems with its corn silage. In looking at the silage it was immediately obvious that it was poorly processed; in every handful there were obvious whole or barely cracked kernels.

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Understanding forage quality: Reducing ash content

Equipment checkpoints for optimal drying

Conditioning in reduced-lignin alfalfa

Best timing of harvest for brown midrib forage sorghum yield, nutritive value, and ration performance

Tips to manage harvest controllables

Own this year’s silage harvest

Plan forage production to minimize variables

Keep nutrition in mind when planning for silage harvest

Custom operator considerations

Porosity: The true measure of silage density

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