FARGO - Many North Dakota corn fields probably will not mature this year, resulting in an opportunity to harvest significant amounts of silage for animal feed, according to a North Dakota State ...

Factors affecting the nutritive value of whole-crop cereal silage for beef cattle were examined. In Experiment 1, finishing steers offered barley silage, harvested at the milky (262 g dry matter ...

Producers seeking a flexible, high feed value forage crop to sow this year should take a close look at whole-crop spring barley. Whole-crop works well in any situation, reckons Keenan nutritionist ...

The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, shows a new study. Seeking to find ...

A spring barley and pea mix, along with grass leys, is helping David Marsh improve soil health and cut the carbon footprint on his mixed Cotswold farm. The barley-pea combination is used for ...

For many producers, silage making has been a tricky task over the last few years with many struggling to get decent yields let alone decent quality of silage due to some of the most unpredictable ...

THE CONSTRUCTION of a silage-based paddock assisted feeding system five years ago has enabled Southern Downs beef producers, Karl and Alexis Doré, to turn a 50-cow breeding enterprise into a 800-head ...