A silo full of freshly chopped corn silage is a potential death trap, warns John G. Pollock of the New York Rural Health and Safety Council. Complex chemical reactions involved in the formation of ...

Silos were built to hold fermented livestock feed known as ensilage, or silage. One of the great and venerable problems in animal husbandry was the difficulty of storing, or “carrying over,” enough ...

A few weeks before harvesting corn for silage, growers should start monitoring its moisture content — a major influence on silage quality. When silage is too dry, it creates excessive air in silos and ...

September was always one of my favorite times as a kid. It was exciting because I loved helping make silage. The hustle and bustle of the tractors and wagons and chopper, the smell of fresh chopped ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...

Dear Readers: Here’s a Johnnie that was published originally in September 2014. I hope to have answers to newer questions starting again next week. Good morning, Johnnie: Why have all the silos in the ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Soon South Dakota dairy and livestock producers will have data to help them select corn silage hybrids that will yield the nutritional benefits their herds need to produce quality ...