Forage Innovations Knows Great Forage by Larry Hawkins Obviously, the best way to determine a great forage is to feed it to your cows and see if the energy corrected milk (ECM) goes up. When the forages to compare are scattered all over the USA, the way to judge great forage is by submitting samples to the World Dairy Expo’s Forage Analysis Superbowl (FASB), the Granddaddy of such forage Continue Reading
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FI Knows Great Forage
Obviously, the best way to determine a great forage is to feed it to your cows and see if the energy corrected milk (ECM) goes up. When the forages to compare are scattered all over the USA, the way to judge great forage is by submitting samples to the World Dairy Expo’s Forage Analysis Superbowl (FASB), the Granddaddy of such forage contests. Further proof of forage quality is the Continue Reading
Prussic Acid Safety in Sorghums
The caveat for sorghums is their chance to contain prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) mostly when the first frost occurs. If the first frost is not a killing frost, more prussic acid will be produced on subsequent frosts until the sorghum plant is completely dead. Prussic acid toxicity occurs with all sorghum family plants, i.e., forage sorghum, hybrid sudangrass and sorghum-sudan. If you are using Continue Reading
More Opportunities With Small Grains – Making Allelopathy Your Friend
For many of us, 2020 has at least one good thing happening for us. I has been the earliest harvesting of corn silage since 2012! This is giving us a big leg up ongetting our winter triticale planted in time to deliver a highly-tillered, and voluminous crop next spring. In our last Foraging Ahead newsletter, we weretalking about putting in a crop of a cocktail mix after the triticale or rye in the Continue Reading
Opportunities in Small Grains
Fall-planted small grains are a huge opportunity, especially for the Upper Midwest, Northeast and High Plains. Many questions have come in these last few weeks, so we are putting together this guide to answer many of these small grain questions. We will be only discussing opportunities for forages and not grains. This article will deal with these opportunities, and also with the options for the Continue Reading
Where would you get forage like this?
This forage is from one of Daniel Olson’s farms. It was chopped on June 24th and planted on April 17th. It is a forage that was not supposed to be. What was supposed to be, was a crop of fall triticale. Now I am so old that I cannot remember why, but for some reason the triticale could not get planted last fall (2019)! So, the ground was open, and a new course was Continue Reading