The use of a fungicide on silage corn has been a topic of debate in areas where leaf disease pressure has been higher over the past few years. Diseases in corn, such as northern corn leaf blight, grey leaf spot, anthracnose stalk rot and Gibberella ear rot, have the potential to cause a significant decrease in quality and yield.

As the harvest season is complete and winter is arriving, nutritionists and producers alike are busy evaluating corn silage quality results and silage inventories for 2015.

Mailboxes and email inboxes will be filled with seed catalogs and silage plot results as the 2015 corn silage harvest nears completion.

Maximizing the economic return of your calf program depends on the ability to provide the right nutrients and environment based on your calves’ biological needs for growth.