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Corn silage too dry will have lower lactic acid production and often undesirable yeast and mold growth in the presence of air pockets Wetter may not be best either.
Acetic acid will dominant the acid produced if too wet for safe storage. This is a sour smell.
Good silage has a sweet lactic acid smell and
will be the dominant acid and has sour smell.
The key here is milk per ton and beef per ton values.
. Late season leaf disease can still steal bushels.
Depending on the heat at grain fill we lost some bushels on some late sulking hybrids.
Nitrogen and sulfur losses in the wettest areas will limited our top end yield.
Other early season varieties had a better ear fill environment.
Silking
Our mid season hybrids 100 day relative maturity have the nicest ear fill.
Weather and crop dry down made this year’s harvest window for silage a “quick one" Silage moisture is ideal in the range 65-70 %
The pilgrim planted maize from the Native Americans which was much like volunteer corn sprouting from the previous crop. This corn didn’t look much like our uniform plant culture of todays corn fields. All the genetic variation was expressed some good. Some not so good. But a natural selection process took place that we needed to see the big improvements that we have today.
“In 1972–1978, 100% of the fields in the trial were all conventional till,” he says. “In 1979, the first reported no-till field came in as a practice for our performance trials, and no-till started to expand over time. By 1996, we had the first report for stale seedbed, which is a reduced tillage practice aiming at better weed control. By 2008–2010, only about 15% of the fields in the trial were still conventional till with the rest being minimum or reduced till. From 2013–2020, strip-till was introduced. By 2021, none of our fields in the trials had conventional till, The pilgrim planted maize from the native Americans which was much like volunteer corn sprouting from the previous crop. This corn didn’t look much like our uniform plant culture of todays corn fields. All the genetic variation was expressed some good. Some not so good. But a natural selection process took place that we needed to see the big improvements that we have today.The adoption of crop rotations and reduced tillage accompanied yield improvements in the past 50 years. Photo courtesy of USDA.
Ron’s notes
Young cattle are fed a ration that has a higher protein and middle range energy
Feed sales people promote their supplement protein pellets to feed along with poor protein forage
This triticale has the best of both high enough crude protein
(16% C.P.) and middle range energy (67-69 NEL)
