Feeding Immature Corn Silage

Immature corn silage may not have a high starch level, but there is quite a bit of sugar in the stalk. The value of immature corn silage is about 35% lower in projected milk yield than regular corn silage-still a great deal of nutrition. Here are some suggestions for...

Is Candy Good for Cattle?

3 answers for the Candy Craze I’ve been reading about this Skittles spill and quite honestly, I was shocked. I had thought it would turn out to be a positive article for agriculture-using up food ingredients and preventing them from going into a landfill. But...

Alfalfa Issues

Winterkill Alfalfa The question as to if alfalfa is going to survive the winter or not has probably more to do with the plant itself than the actual weather conditions during the winter. Alfalfa begins the process for surviving the winter actually during the fall...

Mold Report

Mold trouble…   As you probably know, molds can be a real problem. Crops that have been innoculated with mold spores out in the field grow during storage as they need very little oxygen to flourish. These molds can then produce mycotoxins-basically...