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Ensiling process
There are several reasons it is recommended to chop corn silage at a lower dry matter and higher moisture content.  First, nutritionally an immature plant will have a higher moisture content, and lower fiber content and higher relative feed value and available energy to the animal. Conversely, as plant maturity increases and moisture content decreases,...
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Last week I attended the Silage for Beef Cattle Conference in Mead, NE.  For those of you who put up corn silage, or provide advice for those who do I would highly recommend listening to the online uploads from this conference as well as looking over the proceedings. Here are 8 key concepts I took...
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Here at Ward Laboratories Inc., we often encourage producers to be creative and try new approaches to agricultural production, such as trying corn-soy silage.  A couple of weeks ago at the American Society of Animal Science Midwest meeting in Omaha, I listened to a talk about getting more creative with corn silage: “Production of High-Quality...
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