That means that most of this year’s silage crop will soon be ready to feed to cattle. While ranchers may be able to calculate the input costs or the price of selling the corn silage to another ...
Ensiling silage (with proper fermentation) can reduce nitrate levels by approximately 50%. Do not feed corn silage as green chop if drought stressed. Crop may be high in nitrates and cause abortions ...
As I’m writing this at the end of June, some corn is still being planted in the Midwest ... I’m acutely aware of the challenges of balancing diets with less than ideal forage supply and lower quality ...
“rumen in situ” means that corn silage samples are incubated in lactating cows’ rumens for seven hours. This approach and these results give us an outstanding estimate of rumen starch digestibility. I ...