With tight grain storage and relatively low corn prices, many dairy producers are contemplating the strategic move of ...

Some crop insurance policies bar farmers from chopping the corn plants for resale as silage. Crop insurance typically pays a farmer up to 80% of production costs in case of a total crop loss.

Not everything has to be new to work Chopping corn and packing silage involve larger, more efficient machines than it once did. But Jenny Schlecht found an old innovation worked best in handling ...

MEDINA, N.D. — Even though an early frost pushed along the silage corn crop in parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, Jordan Reierson says the 2020 corn chopping season has been a big ...

Corn silage in western Nebraska is being harvested. The silage is the result of chopping the whole corn plant and packing it in a way that will ferment.

Drought-stressed corn silage can have from 75 to 90 percent of the feed value of normal corn silage, but there are some issues to be aware of when dealing with drought-stressed corn silage. Nitrate… ...

Keith Gemmill, who farms with his son and grandson, helped organize a corn silage-chopping bee among 11 producers in his neighborhood.

Some crop insurance policies bar farmers from chopping the corn plants for resale as silage. In other fields the nitrogen content of the corn stalks may be too high to be fed to livestock.

DECORAH, Iowa --- Silage choppers have been chewing up and spitting out corn for about a month in Northeast Iowa with mixed results.

A researcher has found a way to get more bang for fewer bucks when it comes to processing cellulosic material to make ethanol. By shredding corn stover instead of chopping, as is commonly done ...

Silage corn is still green because it’s a “longer-day” corn — 102-day maturity corn — while grain corn in this area might be about 80-day corn.

MEDINA, N.D. — Even though an early frost pushed along the silage corn crop in parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, Jordan Reierson says the 2020 corn chopping season has been a big ...