Research advocates for harvesting corn at a defined maturity and moisture content for optimal storage, utilization, and milk per acre...

Harvesting corn silage at the right moisture is always important, but it may be just a little bit more important in 2021...

Most everyone knows how corn should be harvested and stored to ensure the best possible performance results when it is fed...

The underlying genetics of corn, or Zea mays, stem from domesticated teosinte found in Latin America thousands of years ago...

The environment and ground we grow forage on continue to change each year. If the United States could allocate moisture from rainfall throughout the continent, growers would be in fantastic shape...

Lurking in every load of corn silage brought to the silo are wild yeasts. These microorganisms are a specific type of fungi that occur naturally on all plants and may be active with or without oxygen...

Coming upon nearly 100 years of silage science, researchers and farmers have long recognized that successful fermentation will preserve forage and grain long into the future...

The San Joaquin Valley (SJV) of California is home to about 1.7 million lactating dairy cows, and that number of cows needs a lot of forage...

Coming upon nearly 100 years of silage science, researchers and farmers have long recognized that successful fermentation will preserve forage and grain long into the future...

In a basic view, the ensiling process consists of the conversion of simple sugars to organic acids — specifically, lactic acid — under anaerobic conditions. However, the exposur...