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How to construct corn/maize silo with the correct packing density?

 As silage can represent up to 50% of a dairy cow’s diet, it’s vital that the silage produced is high quality. Quality silage aids producers as i...

When planets are not aligned for your corn silage harvest

As ensiled forage can make up 50 percent of the DMI in dairy cow diets, the attention to their quality has a tremendous impact on the profitability of...

Maize crops

Globally, maize is the most used crop for ensiling and dairy production — making it an important part of many dairy operations. Growing maize and pr...

5 reasons to use MAGNIVA Platinum inoculant on corn silage

Corn silage always looks the same, but is it? By paying attention to detail at various stages, including crop management, harvesting practices, packin...

Clean Up Your Act: Feed Hygienic Silage to Avoid Health, Productivity Drops

At its best, the process of ensiling should retain as many valuable nutrients and dry matter (DM) from the original forage crop as possible. Once the ...

Clean Up Your Act: Producing silage cattle need and want to eat.

Throwing away spoiled silage is no fun, it adds to feed costs and is labour intensive. Even worse, feeding poor quality silage has reduced nutritional...

The role of fiber in silage and animal nutrition

Increasing intakes of high-quality silage are crucial to driving on-farm profitability, but to achieve this, producers must understand the role of fib...

Interpreting grass silage analysis

With grass silage still making a lot of rations silage analysis results are often overlooked as an important tool for ensuring that producers get the ...

What does wholecrop cereal analysis mean?

Fermented wholecrop can have a range of harvest dates. It can be harvested strategically to react to the season as it unfolds. This flexibility allows...