Slurry tanks are still full and fertiliser is still in the yard, yet May is only seven short weeks away. The majority of farmers across the country typically aim to get the first cut of silage ...

Conserving multispecies swards as hay instead of silage has cut losses from spoilage and saved wrapping and disposal costs for Sam Pearman’s outwintered suckler cows on a bale-grazing system. See also ...

Cattle graze at the Wulanmaodu pasture in Horqin Right Wing Front Banner, Hinggan League, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Aug 9, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] HOHHOT — In the vast pastures of ...

MANY types of preservatives such as ground cereals, sugar beet pulp and molasses are employed to preserve silage in the best possible condition. These preservatives are high in fermentable ...

Timely harvest of corn silage is one of the most critical factors affecting forage quality. To ensure maximum yields of dry matter, nutrients per acre, palatability, intake, and minimize storage ...

Corn silage harvest has begun in southeastern Pennsylvania, and that means cover cropping season is upon us. We know the countless benefits of cover crops (providing or tying up nitrogen, suppressing ...

On September 5, 2025, in Ulysses, Kansas, USA, @scottwestacre shared a video marking the start of corn silage season. In the video, a forage harvester is seen cutting and chopping dryland corn plants, ...

Abstract: This tutorial aims to provide an intuitive introduction to Gaussian process regression (GPR). GPR models have been widely used in machine learning applications due to their representation ...

Analysis Reports. Limin Kung & Randy Shaver. Depending on how many and which bacteria are present, this process could yield very different results. Using an inoculant can ensure sufficient population ...

It"s worth repeating: air is the enemy of high-quality silage. As silage is opened and fed, it is once again exposed to air, and oxygen allows aerobic organisms that survived the ensiling process — ...

Please note submissions focusing on community analyses without experimental microbial work and a hypothesis are out of scope for the Microbiotechnology section and will not be accepted for publication ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Moisture and fall forage growth have been disappointing in 2024. The bumper crop of corn this year has prompted many cattle farmers to consider feeding their cows corn silage. “We had ...