Stellar Silage: Nine tips to harvest and save corn silage value

摘要

With ethanol-driven corn prices still above 3 dollar, it's time to take your corn silage management skills to an even higher level to optimize this valuable feedstuff. It's no secret that maximizing the forage portion of a dairy or beef diet can reduce off-farm feed inputs. And quality forage starts before harvest - as in right now - and continues through silo feed-out. "This is the year to make investments and pay attention to all the details we traditionally talk about in corn silage production," says Greg Roth, extension grain crops specialist at Penn State University. "Even though we talk about these things every year, they don't always get done, which leads to less-than-ideal silage."