Jerry H. Cherney

Prediction of corn silage whole plant moisture in the field

March 12, 2026

Jerry H. Cherney, Mike Davis, and Joe Lawrence

Nearly half of the corn acreage in New York state is harvested as corn silage. The correct crop moisture content is critical for nutritional value and proper ensiling.

Balancing potassium (K) management of alfalfa. When is too much indeed more than we need?

March 12, 2026

Jerry H. Cherney, Quirine M. Ketterings, and Joe Lawrence

Alfalfa is an important crop for many dairy producers in the Northeastern United States. When managed properly, alfalfa can bring in large quantities of high-quality and high-protein home-grown forage without the need for extra nitrogen fertilizer.

Alfalfa-grass mixes increase forage quality to support high-producing dairy cows

March 13, 2023

Debbie J. Cherney, Jerry H. Cherney, and Rink Tacoma-Fogal

Seeding alfalfa with a grass produces a mixed forage with higher neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFD), important for high-producing dairy cows.

Remote sensing to estimate yield of field crops

March 17, 2022

Jerry H. Cherney, Quirine M. Ketterings, Louis Longchamps, and Sunoj Shajahan

While knowing yield per field is useful for inventory management and to identify where field-based management changes can be made, knowing where high and low or variable yielding areas are within fields facilitates zone-specific management, which is likely to benefit yield, reduce the environmental impact of overapplication, and increase return on investment of inputs like seed and fertilizer over time.

Evaluating handheld NIR equipment

November 1, 2021

Debbie J. Cherney, Jerry H. Cherney, and Matthew Digman

Nutrient composition of fed rations differs from formulated rations due to day-to-day variation in dry matter (DM) content and nutrient composition of forages, as well as mixing wagon variation and sorting.

Is day-to-day variation in bunkers worth correcting?

March 9, 2021

Debbie J. Cherney, Jerry H. Cherney, and Matthew Digman

Everyone knows that feed from haylage and corn silage bunkers will vary in composition from day to day. What is not so clear is the magnitude of this variation, and whether it might be worth it, economically and environmentally, to rebalance dairy rations daily to correct the variation.

Double-cropping with forage sorghum and forage triticale in New York: Best timing for sorghum harvest and triticale planting

March 8, 2021

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

Double-cropping with both warm- and cool-season forages in New York can have many benefits, including providing a source of forage yield in the spring that potentially leads to greater total season yields than a monocrop system, increasing rotation diversity, and providing year-round soil cover.

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.

On-farm instant quality analysis

March 13, 2019

Debbie J. Cherney and Jerry H. Cherney

Near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy has been used to evaluate forage quality since the early 1980s.

Alfalfa-grass results differ by region

December 27, 2018

Debbie J. Cherney, Jerry H. Cherney, Craig Sheaffer, S. R. Smith, and M. S. Wells

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funded a research project conducted in Kentucky, Minnesota and New York to evaluate high-quality alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures.

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Prediction of corn silage whole plant moisture in the field

Balancing potassium (K) management of alfalfa. When is too much indeed more than we need?

Alfalfa-grass mixes increase forage quality to support high-producing dairy cows

Remote sensing to estimate yield of field crops

Evaluating handheld NIR equipment

Is day-to-day variation in bunkers worth correcting?

Double-cropping with forage sorghum and forage triticale in New York: Best timing for sorghum harvest and triticale planting

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

On-farm instant quality analysis

Alfalfa-grass results differ by region

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