What Can You Learn From Last Year’s Harvest? Looking back at last year’s harvest is one of the simplest ways to make better ...

Grass silage makes up around a quarter of the annual feed budget on the average dairy farm. It is essential then, to have a plan in place to avoid deficits both in bulk and feed value. What happens on ...

Dairy producers have been putting haylage into bunkers, bags and piles for nearly two months, and ensiling corn is but a couple of months away. This is a reminder that despite the work, covering ...

As corn grain prices sky-rocket, corn silage prices have shot up as well. To better estimate fair market value, Ryan Sterry, a Polk County, Wis., ag agent, and colleagues have developed an easy-to-use ...

SILAGE is simply pickled grass and having an adequate quality of this feed is essential for all livestock farmers. Grass that's cut as silage is preserved in its own juices (acids) which normally ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

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 ...

Whether it’s a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Thomas Hind, senior rural surveyor at Carter Jonas, sets out the considerations for ...

Animals feed in one of the dips at Eldoret Technical Training Institute Kapseret area in Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] For farmers in livestock enterprises such as dairy cows and goats ...

Keep an eye out for the risk of mycotoxin this winter, as the dry summer has resulted in hard to manage high dry matter silage.

To most livestock farmers 2022 is a year to remember. This is because the drought caught many unaware before they could stock up on enough quality feed for their animals to push them through. Many ...