Chopping in 2019 meant using a safety pull on four-wheel-drive tractors to get every truckload of silage out of fields, Reierson said. He was still chopping with snow on the ground in December 2019.

FORDVILLE — There was no way to get trucks into the fields in south-central Walsh County after two feet of snow and another inch of rain in October.

The corn "wasn't going to yield much for grain anyway. It wasn't too bad for (silage) quality," Jesse said. Silage averaged about 10 tons per acre, enough to fill one 250-foot bag.

Dry conditions are prompting local farmers to take actions usually slated closer to the fall. Farmers are trying to salvage what they can, and they are chopping their corn crops early to make ...

Besides ADM, another local source to test silage for nitrate ppm would be Key Ag in Macomb. Regardless of the outcome, slowly introduce the corn silage to the cattle.

By shredding corn stover instead of chopping, as is commonly done, about 40 percent less energy is needed to gain access to more of the material stored in the plant. Dennis Buckmaster, an associate ...

Chopping in 2019 meant using a safety pull on four-wheel-drive tractors to get every truckload of silage out of fields, Reierson said. He was still chopping with snow on the ground in December 2019.

Silage corn is still green because it’s a “longer-day” corn — 102-day maturity corn — while grain corn in this area might be about 80-day corn. The ideal moisture content for silage corn ...

MEDINA, N.D. — Even though an early frost pushed along the silage corn crop in parts of North Dakota and South Dakota, Jordan Reierson says the 2020 corn chopping season has been a big ...