ST. PAUL -- Every year, dairy producers are challenged with harvesting high-quality silage within a critical timeframe working around the weather, getting it to a storage structure and packing it ...

Every year, dairy producers are challenged with harvesting high-quality?silage within a critical timeframe working around the weather, getting it to a storage structure, and packing it adequately for ...

A lot of time and energy is spent harvesting quality hay and silage. All of that can be wasted without proper storage. For hay and silage, up to 50% losses in dry matter can occur in some instances, ...

Farmers and ranchers who need to preserve feed for their livestock over the winter or during periods of drought often turn to bagging silage. Silage is grass or other green fodder that has been ...

SHOREVIEW, Minn . – Depending upon how much silage inventory carryover your farm has on hand, you may be looking at making the switch to new crop corn silage very soon, if you haven’t already. When ...

Vaishali Malde, the marketing director at Packaging Industries Limited explain the science behind silage storage and rules that must never be broken. 1. Climate change is the greatest threat to food ...

With silage bagging, the oxygen is removed almost instantly, and fermentation begins promptly. The sealed bags protect silage quality and maintain favorable fermentation conditions even amid ...

As of this year, silage bales, including dry matter silage or haylage, can only be stored a maximum of two bales high, in the absence of adequate facilities for the collection and storage of any ...

Feed accounts for the biggest proportion of variable costs on a dairy farm. But that cost is often unnecessarily high because farmers fail to match silage quality to the needs of different stock ...