One gets knifed-in liquid dairy manure from a nearby farm just prior to corn planting. The dairy chops the corn for silage. The other section receives dry dairy manure and is planted to soybeans.

Equally important, he said, Iowa's Dairy Center, a partnership between NICC and the Northeast Iowa Community-Based Dairy Foundation, will harvest all the corn and rye silage needed to feed its ...

Roughages can be provided in a variety of forms, from more common forage crops such as corn silage and alfalfa hay to ...

Corn growers looking to sell drought-damaged corn for silage, and livestock producers looking to purchase it, need to understand how to properly price the crop. Because yield varies widely based on ...

A biotech corn trait developed to enhance the production efficiency of bioethanol turned out to have an unexpected upside - it can improve the feed-use-efficiency of beef and dairy cattle.

August 21, 2002 It looks dry, but some corn's too wet for silage, specialist says WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the ...

Some crop insurance policies bar farmers from chopping the corn plants for resale as silage. Crop insurance typically pays a farmer up to 80% of production costs in case of a total crop loss.

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up.

This growing season has been tough for many producers between early frosts, wind/hail damage, late replanting, heat and drought conditions.