Analysis

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...

Don’t let wet conditions take control of silage quality

Farmers are being urged to take steps to reduce soil contamination in this year’s silage to prevent negative impacts on feed quality, animal health ...

How to make the best silage when conditions are wet?

With its solid reputation for providing a reliable source of livestock fodder throughout the year, grass silage is the cornerstone of many rations, bu...

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 ...

Reduce undesirable bacterial populations

High mineral fertilizers costs may lead, to producers increasing the application of organic fertilizers through the grass growing season. Adding high ...

True or False? Silage inoculants are not required if growing conditions are ideal

New data on the dry matter intakes (DMI) of first cut silage has busted the myth that inoculants are not needed when harvesting conditions are favoura...

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...

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...