MITCHELL, S.D. — The warm, dry weather is putting some farmers ahead of schedule in 2020, with silage cutting underway for some producers in and around the Mitchell area. “We started (cutting silage) ...

Corn silage in western Nebraska is being harvested. The silage is the result of chopping the whole corn plant and packing it in a way that will ferment. The corn is still green, but it has stopped ...

KEARNEY - There's still feed value in hail-damaged corn as silage or high-moisture corn. But close monitoring is needed to ensure the correct moisture, said Buffalo County Extension educator Brent ...

“We’ve seen this in previous seasons and it’s potentially down to two reasons,” he said. “Firstly, with the generally mild winters we get nowadays, grass growth is almost continuous. So by mid-May, ...

The scents of a late summer night are sweet and evocative. I sink into them as into a cool, northern lake. To tread on bergamot or gill-over-the-ground in the darkness is to be instantly enveloped in ...

A common fermented feed for livestock churns out a potent greenhouse gas, but scientists in Kansas say they’ve figured out an affordable way to one day tackle the problem. A team of scientists at ...

Changes in silage production could help cut greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Agriculture is the largest source of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions in the United States. N 2 O is the third ...

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

While driving on Charlie Norris Road this morning, I saw a big white thing in the field that looked like a huge worm about eight feet high and 100 feet or longer. I think it means Eddie Tribble is ...