Main menu:

Categories

Archive for 'Harvest and Storage'

TMR Management Practices

TMR Management Practices was a presentation given during the 2012 CWAS Dairy Meetings.  Click here for the presentation handouts; TMR_Management_HO ,  TMR_Mixer_Maintenance , TMR_Management_nHealthy_Rumen

Determining Silage Bag Capacity

Click on the attachment below,  if you’re interested in knowing how much you have in those silo bags behind the barn.  And for additional information or Excel spreadsheets on storing silage go to the UW Team Forage Website at:  http://www.uwex.edu/ces/crops/uwforage/storage.htm  .  You might also want to consider trying the SiloCAP spreadsheet on the Virginia Tech Dairy website [...]

Harvesting High Quality Hay

Presentation handouts on suggestions for harvesting high quality hay.  This presention was given in March 2011 by Ryan Pearcy, Hay Tools Product Manager, Kuhn North America Harvesting Quality Hay

Best Practices to Hasten Field Drying of Grasses and Alfalfa A3927

UW-Extension Publication suggeting tips to shorten the hay and haylage harvest window and enhance forage quality.  Click and then search the Learning Store using some of the key words from the title above.

Alfalfa Getting Top Yields

Presentation given in March 2011 recommending options to maximize forage production Alfafa getting top yields

Harvesting Quality Hay

Harvesting Quality Hay (47 slides, 3260 KB .pdf)