The dog days of August are here, and that means silage chopping season is rapidly approaching. How silage is cut and stored depends somewhat on the growing season, says Aaron Saeugling, Iowa State ...

Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other cud-chewing animals. What does a farmer require? To prepare your crop for silage, it must be chopped into ...

What Can You Learn From Last Year’s Harvest? Looking back at last year’s harvest is one of the simplest ways to make better ...

An abundance of new information on an age-old feed has led Extension specialists from Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to offer a one-day conference for cattle producers, ...

Anyone who has worked with plants can share that some grow better than others in their environment, and that is also true of forages used for feeding beef cattle, K-State Beef Cattle Institute ...

While much of the focus heading into July has been about wheat production those who depend on silage are also watching crop conditions. Silage is big business in the High Plains, particularly in ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

Sunflower silage may be a potential forage option for many producers as they search for alternatives during the drought. “A lot of people are interested in examining their sunflower crop and examining ...