Decreasing availability of irrigation water has led dairies and feedyards to increasingly look to sorghum to meet their ...

Farmers and ranchers who need to preserve feed for their livestock over the winter or during periods of drought often turn to bagging silage. Silage is grass or other green fodder that has been ...

Analysis: Here’s why you should consider wide-swath cutting and why it is better for your cows’ milk production.

Sorghum is one plant sometimes used for silage. Scientists at Kansas State University say this fermented livestock feed produces nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but that they have uncovered a ...

In this instalment, Dr. Adrienne Kerley of Volac looks at harvesting and part 1 of treating grass with an additive.

Darren McMurran and his family run a dairy farm in Castlevennon near Banbridge in Co. Down and is home to one of the most ...

Dear Joseph Happy New Year, I started diary farming late last year just in time to tap into the lush vegetation that followed the rains. I must say I have not had any feed challenges up to now but the ...

Cutting better-quality silage earlier will always result in improved animal performance, with less dependence on purchased concentrates, which will undoubtedly be critical next winter, writes ruminant ...

Alternative forages such as maize, whole crop and beet provide a much more consistent quality product from year to year than grass silage, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy Crops such as maize ...