Grasses for Dairy-Quality Forage? For many years, alfalfa and corn silage have been the staples of dairy diets throughout the Great Lakes Region & the North-East. Cool-season grasses (such as orchardgrass, timothy & tall fescue) which traditionally have been early-maturing, stemmy, hard-to-manage and just not very productive were considered old-fashioned impediments to high-quality dairy forage. […]
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TOOL #3- Corn Silage Hybrids with Greater Starch & Fodder Digestibility
Corn Silage: Key Characteristics – Nutritional Value & Tonnage Through my years in the seed industry, I have observed that designating a hybrid as a ‘silage’ hybrid often was a way of moving inventory of hybrids with any of the following characteristics: tall plant type, questionable standability or poor dry-down. Until the last 15 years […]
