Back and forth, pushing and packing. This is how Jason Feldhaus, a partner at Reisch Farms near Howard, is spending the last few days of August and into September - packing corn silage. "I always joke ...

Corn silage in western Nebraska is being harvested. The silage is the result of chopping the whole corn plant and packing it in a way that will ferment. The corn is still green, but it has stopped ...

FARGO - This year, late-seeded corn destined for grain may have been damaged by frost, but it still can be used. "The weather continues to complicate the farming and ranching scene," North Dakota ...

Farmers are looking to drought-stressed corn for silage and balage to stretch limited hay supplies. Chopped corn silage offers beef producers better options than balage, says University of Missouri ...

Silage-packing management is important for quality, says Neil Broadwater, Extension educator in the Rochester regional office. For bunker silos, tractor weight, packing time, layer thickness, silage ...

New silage choppers and associated equipment have increased the speed with which silage can be chopped and silos can be filled. But silage producers still need to pack the silage well. Most silage ...

Farmers are looking to drought-stressed corn for silage and balage to stretch limited hay supplies. But University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Gene Schmitz said chopped corn silage ...

Forage preservation can be an attractive alternate to cover farmer feed problems to ensure regular supply of fodder even in periods of acute shortage to get optimum production from dairy animals. The ...

Vaishali Malde, the marketing director at Packaging Industries Limited explain the science behind silage storage and rules that must never be broken. 1. Climate change is the greatest threat to food ...

A recent study conducted by Miner Institute’s Marcos Marcondes evaluated whether reconstituted finely ground corn could serve ...