Shaver suggests the farm producers to use the Penn State Forage Particle Separator to check particle length and how well the corn is crushed. According to Hutjens, only one-third of chop silage is processed at the right particle length with the kernels....
Corn silage starch content is up and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) percent is down for much of the Midwest. Samples from the eastern U.S. and West Coast have average starch content. NDF digestibility was average to slightly below for most U.S. regions, though samples from Ohio trended hig...
Oats are valued for much more than just the grains used in healthy cereals; they are an incredibly versatile crop for farmers. It’s common to grow oats as forage for livestock, supplying excellent nutrition when harvested as hay or silage. Additionally, it’s an ideal high-biomass cover ...
Thank you so much for sharing all of this information. I’m going to be getting a pig or two in about 8 weeks and I’m looking into feeding them as healthy and cost effective as possible. I was wondering if you sprout the peas and barley mixture you mentioned. And I’m also wonderi...
While the brick in your photo is modern, the building or some of it could be much older. The oldest component you can find usually sets a floor under the probable building age. There may also be public documents such as tax records and of course the building's property deed that give...
In pricing, you need to be extra careful on how much you will sell your product, you need to consider everything you have spend including services, maintenance and other expenses you have incurred from the beginning.Promotion usually starts with the wholesalers and price takers. Given the fact...
How much food is grown on local fields, and how much would be necessary to feed the local population in a plant-based, healthy, appealing and diverse way, as recommended by the planetary health diet (PHD)? To this point, these questions have not been answered, at least not in detail. ...
Corn silage, however, has been shown to cause major land-use-related impacts, since the crop is cultivated purely for bioenergy production [105]. Lansche and Müller [106] pointed out that using cattle manure for anaerobic digestion prevents emissions from the on-farm storage of manure. However...
Learn as much as you can from local millet farmers or your regional agriculture department or society. 9 Harvest millet before migrating birds appear. Keep a careful eye on grain development and bird activity, as the harvesting window can be short between the ripening of the grain and the appe...
How to use corn silage hybrid trial resultsJust looking at the top performing hybrids from a single year, while interesting, has limited value.Lawrence, JoeOverton, ThomasLawton, AllisonSmith, Margaret