Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By limiting oxygen exposure and spoilage, bagged silage can improve intake, digestion, milk production and reproductive ...

Alfalfa silage is one of the main roughages in the production of dairy cow. It can provide nutrition with high-quality to improve milk quality and production. Sucrose additions have been widely used ...

Corn silage is an essential component of many dairy and beef cattle rations. The goal is to make a high-quality feedstuff, but to achieve this requires planning before harvest, monitoring plant ...

Cattle producers should complete a forage inventory now to aid in making ranch-level decisions and reducing costs.

Has your silage preserved well this year? Is it dry or wet? What is quality like or do you know? Knowing the answer to these type of questions will have performance and cost implications for your ...

Fergal O'Sullivan spoke to Frederick de Boer of Flingk Machinebouw, about its range of feeding and bedding equipment to see ...

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 ...

Forage maize sits quietly at the center of one of agriculture’s most consequential challenges: how to feed the world’s ruminant livestock efficiently, affordably, and sustainably. Unlike grain mai ...

Cost of achieving animal performance is far less when young top quality grass silage is fed, says independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy Contractor Mark Troy, Knockroe, Bandon & Neilus Lehane, ...

When the feed will be present in the diet for up to seven months of the year, a few days’ work is a small price to pay for better quality silage, writes Alltech InTouch Nutrition Specialist Bernard ...

Getting good-quality silage -- and keeping it ST. PAUL -- Every year, dairy producers are challenged with harvesting high-quality silage within a critical timeframe working around the weather, getting ...

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