From Jeff Miller, Ag Program Leader of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County
If you have ground that you worked up to plant corn but didn’t yet…. You may want to consider brown mid rib sorghum sudangrass because it can produce better in hot dry conditions that are usually associated with this time of year.
Irregardless, if you think that corn silage yields may be less than normal and you may not have the inventory that you need for your livestock what things can you do :
· Contract some acres of corn from local grain producer
· Apply appropriate side dress N to push yields on early planted corn
· Apply up to 75lbs of N after each cut of productive grass fields
· Forward contract corn grain
· Culling of less productive livestock
· Sale of heifers if they are not needed as replacements
