CALMAR — Northeast Iowa Community College has implemented comprehensive conservation practices on all the cropland used to feed its dairy … ...

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A No-till corn field. getty. Most of the corn grown in the US has been improved using biotechnology to provide protection from insect damage and/or herbicide tolerance. ... Corn for Silage ...

As dairy farmers instituted cover cropping to reduce nutrient runoff from their silage corn fields, they would adopt genetically engineered (GE) corn seed plus the herbicide Roundup, ... no-till ...

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.

Damaged corn can be harvested as either whole-plant silage or green chop, but, either way, growers and livestock producers need to be aware of how it can affect feed quality and animal health.

In his first year of trialling no-tillage, savings at the establishment stage ranged from £366 to £494/ha (£148-£200/acre). The saving depended on the soil type, with heavier soils requiring ...