A growing number of Iowa grain farmers are giving up hope on a harvestable corn crop in the face of the ongoing drought. Some insurance agencies report a few farmers have started the process of filing ...

The gigantic silage pile sitting in the feedyard every winter is an accomplishment. It starts with putting seed in the ground in the spring and continues through getting it chopped, piled up and ...

Reducing grass silage chop length to 2cm (0.78in) could increase dairy cow performance, in some cases, by up to two litres of milk a cow. And while conventional thinking has always said shorter clamp ...

With silage season upon us now, it is timely to consider some of the main issues around silage making. The objective should ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

Go inside the massive silage harvest. We'll show you the powerful machinery and the precise techniques needed to quickly chop and haul feed for the livestock. Trump slams interpreter before Latin ...

Switching from a three-cut silage system to taking smaller and more regular cuts of silage has lifted forage quality at a Welsh dairy farm. But recouping the additional costs of a multi-cut system by ...

It's still early to harvest the corn and the soybeans, but farmers in the northern reaches of the Miami Valley are going from corn field to corn field chopping the corn into silage to feed the cows.