Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

Improving dairy efficiency means many things to many producers. As we near the corn silage harvest, processing has become a more common practice that can affect efficiency. Research at the U.S.

Called Shredlage, it’s a roller system designed to rip forage longitudinally to improve fibre length during kernel processing. Traditional kernel processing has a tendency to chop corn silage to short ...

The Shredlage maize silage technique that processes both the kernel and long chopped corn stalk particles significantly improves digestibility and livestock performance according to Claas.

Corn silage has always been a major feed component in dairy and beef rations. However, this year’s weather is making harvesting corn silage a challenge for many areas of the state. Northwest and ...

In some areas, people are already putting up corn silage, especially areas where moisture was lacking. In this week’s column I’ll give a few pointers on making quality corn silage this fall. Depending ...