For many of you, feeding new crop corn silage started by now, but maybe a few have the luxury to still be using 2022 crop year corn silage. It’s a wonderful thing if you can at least make it to Christmas time before opening new crop corn silage because of all the benefits related to prolonged fermentation and increasing starch availability. Today, I want to provide a brief update on what our team is seeing with new crop corn silage across different regions.
The one common complaint has been silage collapses/avalanches that result in days’ worth of feed falling from the silage face. Not only is this a major safety threat but this also causes decreased nutrient value from feed being exposed to air for longer than normal time. I think we all understand the danger associated with this, but I do want to remind us all that this can happen in a split second and be deadly. Please remember these few pointers when working around silage piles:
Posted February 5, 2024
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