Staging Corn Maturity for Harvest
When will your corn be ready? There were early plantings and late planting this year and maturity in the field is following suit. Sixty days is the length of time, on average, that it ...
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Staging Corn Maturity for Harvest
When will your corn be ready? There was early planting and late planting this year and maturity in the field is following suit. Sixty days is the length of time, on average, that it ...
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Pricing Corn Silage – Fall 2022
By John Hanchar, NWNY Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops Program Summary Analysis suggests corn silage price depends on corn silage quantities, alfalfa hay price, the price received by farmers for milk, and corn grain ...
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Managing Forage Digestibility to Combat High Commodity Prices
By Joe Lawrence, Cornell PRO-DAIRY Forage quality is important, it is hard to attend a meeting or read an agricultural publication without hearing this point and while there is a risk of becoming numb ...
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Winter Crop Meeting 2021: A Virtual Meeting Series
This year we are offering our Winter Crop Meeting in a virtual format with weekly webinars taking place from 1pm – 2pm on Thursdays from January 14 through February 4. Cost is $10 for ...
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Forage Inventory: Have you taken stock of your forage harvests?
One of the most frustrating things to a nutritionist, and indeed the cow herself, is a diet that is constantly changing. Just when a diet gets dialed in, it seems that a new bunk ...
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Side-Dressing Fertilizer in Corn
It won’t be long and it will be time for sidedressing corn nitrogen needs in continuous corn or fields with no or low rates of manure. This spring’s dryer conditions have not lead to ...
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Setting up Corn Silage Harvest: How 2019 is Shaping Up
Last week, the SCNY Dairy & Field Crops Team held a traditional corn “burn down” at Ward & Van Scoy in Owego, but with a modern twist. John Winchell from Alltech brought his portable ...
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Crop Notes 2019
The big concern right now is preparing for corn silage harvest which is covered in other articles. I do want to cover a few reminders about potential pests here. Potato Leafhopper Populations of Potato ...
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Preparing for Corn Silage Harvest 2019
This season’s corn crop maturity is variable within field and between fields. Silking and tasseling in not uniform across most fields. You can see corn from knee high to early ear development in the ...
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