Decreasing availability of irrigation water has led dairies and feedyards to increasingly look to sorghum to meet their ...

Nitrogen requirements are based on the expected yield. A good rule of thumb is 8 to 9 pounds of nitrogen will be needed for every fresh weight ton of silage produced. With this in mind, a 22-ton ...

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, ...

Across the state, corn and sorghum crops are thriving where moisture is available, but suffering in areas with drought ...

With this year’s late planting and abundant moisture, corn silage may come off later than usual. Therefore, cover crops may be established later, limiting options to small grains. Fortunately, there ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Heat and drought in the Corn Belt have created the perfect conditions for Aspergillus ear rot to develop in corn grain and silage - something Purdue Extension plant pathologists ...

Once again we’re talking about the effects of drought on our crops. Farmers are dealing with the potential of harvesting dryland crops earlier than normal to procure some value from our dryland acres.