What are the key things to remember in making good silage? Adequate levels of water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC), low buffering capacity, appropriate moisture levels of forage, packing and sealing ...

Making silage when the corn is too dry results in poor packing ... as well as having the appropriately sized tractor for the amount of silage being placed in the pile. Because wheeled tractors exert ...

Silage chopping equipment varies from the motor operated by mounting to the tractor drawn models. One of the most important factors when making your choice of forage harvester will be the output ...

Two years ago, while sampling from a silage pile on a central California dairy, a nutritionist was buried under tons of packed feed when the 30'-tall pile gave way. He suffered a broken back. Although ...

Inoculants can also improve aerobic stability when the silage is fed. Rusche says packing the pile well can be challenging, especially with modern, high-capacity chopping equipment, but it is an ...

Silage-making season is upon us. It’s a harried time of year with all hands – and sometimes even extra hands – on deck. No one loved silage more than Keith Bolsen, Professor Emeritus of Cattle ...

“We have a device, a machine that we can feed corn silage from our corn silage pile into while we’re feeding our cows each day and sort out the stover from it. We take the stover and we feed that to ...