Articles Tagged with ''Forage''

Improving Hay Quality: Insights for Dealers

Tom Kilcer, a former Rensselaer County, N.Y., extension agent and now a crop consultant with Advanced Ag Systems LLC in Kinderhook, N.Y., has conducted several studies and has extensive experience with wide-swath hay harvesting. He’s also tracked haylage harvest research around the country. Kilcer offers several insights that dealers should share with producers to help them improve forage quality.
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The Science Behind Drying Hay

“As mowing and conditioning equipment have evolved, some of the basic drying principles of forage have slipped by the wayside,” says Dan Undersander, Univ. of Wisconsin extension forage agronomist. “If we understand and use the biology and physics of forage drying properly, the hay dries faster and has less chance of being rained on and the total digestible nutrients (TDN) of the harvested forage is higher.”
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