Explore " silage" with insightful episodes like "Optimise your silage production", "Tough year for silage in Tasmania", "Wild yeasts and aerobic stability of silages and TMR: Potential negative effects on intake and production", "25/09/2023 - Panorama Econômico & o Agronegócio" and "Field and Crop Variability in Wisconsin and Indiana" from podcasts like ""Grow the future", "Tasmanian Country Hour", "Real Science Exchange", "Ecoagro Talks" and "Pioneer Agronomy: Indiana"" and more!
In the third podcast for 2024, Ken Rundle has a brief discussion with Yara’s Grassland Agronomist Philip Cosgrave regarding silage production, current weather conditions, grassland management and recommendations for early nitrogen applications.
While it's certainly drying off in some parts of Tasmania, there's still a nice green hue around dairy and beef farmland in the north-east.
Guests: Dr. Limin Kung, University of Delaware, and guest Bonni Kowalke, Stem Ag Consulting
Our Real Science Exchange pubcast always has leading scientists and industry professionals discussing the latest ideas and trends, and tonight, we have two distinguished guests. Dr. Limin Kung and Bonni Kowalke join us to discuss wild yeasts in silage.
Dr. Kung begins by giving an overview of the impacts of wild yeast on silage, where they're either going to anaerobically ferment sugars to ethanol or aerobically; these wild yeasts can lead to spoiled silages and spoiled TMR. (8:32)
Bonni and Limin then go on to detail management strategies and practices for reducing the impacts of wild yeast on silage and TMR, including harvest speed, silage moisture content, pack density, feed-out rate, and additives. (10:59)
Bonni gives her perspective as a consultant about how she works with clients ahead of silage harvest to be able to prevent wild yeast infestation or any other problems. Most of her notes come right after harvest is finished with a list of things the farm wants to do differently next time, which she likens to a game plan for a team sport. (18:09)
Dr. Kung describes how to determine if you have an issue with wild yeast in silage. Primarily, one would see aerobic instability via heating and perhaps molding. There will be a distinct telltale odor as well. Unfortunately, there is no on-farm test; samples must be sent to the lab for analysis. (23:10)
Limin and Bonni give their top issues in regard to silage quality that they see in the field, along with ways to help producers get the very best quality silage off their fields each year. (26:40)
This takes a turn into a discussion about how drone technology could be used in the future for perfecting silage moisture content predictions in the field before chopping. (32:02)
Scott asks Bonni and Limin about the addition of NPN (such as urea or anhydrous ammonia) or sugar sources (such as molasses) to silage and what kind of impact that might have on silage quality. (37:24)
Bonni gives an overview of silage inoculants and additives. (47:13)
Limin and Bonni conclude by comparing the stability of legume silages and corn silages, an overview of inoculation best practices, and their take-home messages to ensure high-quality silage. (51:28)
As mentioned in the show, Bonni Kowalke’s contact information at Stem Ag Consulting is bonni@stemagconsulting.com.
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In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy podcast, hosts Brian Shrader, Ben Jacob and Carl Joern continue going through Purdue's football schedule, talking with Pioneer and Corteva agronomy experts from each respective school. Joining this episode are Ryan Bates and Mike Gronski, Pioneer Field Agronomists from Wisconsin and Wisconsin Badgers. The group discuss Wisconsin weather and field variability throughout the growing season, silage and grain harvest progress and cold weather agronomics.
Resources
Effects of Cold Temperatures Following Soybean Planting: https://www.pioneer.com/us/agronomy/Effects-Cold-Temperatures-Following-Soybean-Planting.html
Cold Stress Effects on Corn: https://www.pioneer.com/us/agronomy/cold-stress-emergence-corn.html
The Silage Zone: https://www.pioneer.com/us/products/forages/silage-zone.html
In this episode of the Indiana Pioneer Agronomy podcast, hosts Brian Shrader and Ben Jacob talk silage. With silage harvest in full swing in Indiana, Brian and Ben talk with Dann Bolinger, Dairy Specialist for Pioneer, about timing your silage harvest, staging silage harvest for maximum return on investment and managing disease during harvest. Dann also discusses the use of Plenish® high oleic feed stuffs for dairy and non-dairy use.
Resources
Pioneer Corn Silage Resource: https://www.pioneer.com/us/products/forages/corn-silage.html
Pioneer Corn Silage Seed Guide: https://www.pioneer.com/us/products/forages/corn-silage/corn-silage-seed-finder.html
Video: 2023 Fiber Digestibility: https://youtu.be/t21-B5ACsY8
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Timestamps and Summary
Chris Gwyn (04:01)
Why the advocacy for safety related to silage management has become so important to you, both personally and professionally?
Doug DeGroff
It’s because I’m a silage avalanche survivor that it’s near and dear to my heart. I was young and quite confident and with an attitude of “it can’t happen to me.” But my luck ran out on August 27, 2009, while taking a solid sample that I’d done thousands of times […]
Chris Gwyn (08:32)
What are some of the key points in the silage safety that you feel are extremely important to share?
Doug DeGroff
I think the first thing I’d like to say it can happen to you or it could happen to your dairy or your feedlot. […]
Once you know that, then you have to be intentional about it. If you’re a dairy owner or a feedlot owner, you have an obligation to those people who work on your business, whether they’re a full-time employee, a contract employee, maybe a silage harvester or your nutritionist or feed salespeople. […]
If somebody gets seriously hurt or tragically killed, it’s very bad for your business financially. So training, talking to your employees, talking to these people that are going to be around your silage piles, hanging up, putting up signs, there’s so much you can do. And either you have a good silage safety management program, or you make excuses when somebody gets injured or killed. It’s one or the other. You really don’t have both.
Chris Gwyn (11:53)
What would you define as a good silage safety program?
Doug DeGroff
It starts with sitting down with the employees and going over the risks […] with anybody who’s going to be in the feed area. And not just the risk of it avalanching. There are other risks with silage. There are gases, there’s equipment driving around it all the time. […]
Have some standard operating protocols at the time of harvest. […]
When you have new employees, make sure you don’t wait until the next training session. They should have a course of what’s going on within days of being hired. […]
Chris Gwyn (14:43)
What should employees working around silage management be thinking and what do they need to do differently?
Doug DeGroff
Certain employees are there in front of piles every single day, multiple times a day. They’re the people with the highest risk because they have the highest exposure. So, they need to be aware of what could be happening when they’re going up, removing tires or removing plastic. It comes pretty good, if the owners haven’t done it, if an employee is asking: “Hey, can you get me a safety harness?”, “Can you get a cable that runs across the length of the pile?” […]
I won’t recommend you pitch off bad feet anymore because God forbid somebody gets hurt. I’m the person who made the recommendation. I used to do that. I no longer do that. And I don’t support that. […]
Chris Gwyn (18:58)
What's your recommendation for safely sampling silage on dairies on feedlots?
Doug DeGroff
I’ll start off with what I used to do and why I did it. And then, I’ll tell you how stupid of an idea it was.
I liked to sample the pile up and down. So, I would get in the loader of the bucket, and I would go up and down. I get to the top of the feed because that feed is different than this feed down here. And if I went straight down the middle of the pile, I would get arguably a very good representation of the pile. […] I had a five-gallon bucket and I put so many handfuls in every foot to eighteen inches and I mixed that feed up and then I put it in my bag, and I had an incredibly good representation of the pile.
It was probably about as unsafe as you can get because at the bottom, the loader backs away because now I can get it. So, I’'m standing there for a few minutes, as much as I can reach, high and low. […]
Now, all my dairies, they know exactly what to do. They’ll either face it with a facer or they’ll scrape it with a payloader and knock it and then what they’ll mix it up, spit it out. Then we put another five thousand pounds in it, mix it up, spit it out in a safe place. I would argue that is the best representation of the pile. […]
Chris Gwyn (23:24)
Key points that you feel are important when it comes to safety around silage management.
Doug DeGroff
The most important part of any solid safety program or any silage program is safety. […]
We don’t spend enough time on safety until something happens. […]
But there’s nothing real sexy about safety, but it’s so necessary. And we just have to keep that in mind. […]
Neste episódio, vamos analisar os recentes desenvolvimentos na economia americana, que tem apresentado resultados positivos. No entanto, a volatilidade é uma preocupação constante devido ao impasse em torno do teto da dívida. Além disso, discutiremos o debate gerado pela análise dos dados da inflação nos Estados Unidos, que levanta questões sobre a continuidade do aumento dos juros naquele país. Nós, no entanto, discordamos dessa tese e explicaremos o motivo por trás disso.
No cenário brasileiro, observamos uma leitura benigna da inflação. No entanto, considerar que os juros já podem ser reduzidos seria um exagero. É importante exercer cautela nessa interpretação.
No setor agropecuário, finalmente começamos a vislumbrar uma luz no fim do túnel em relação aos preços, com os prêmios se tornando positivos em agosto. Essa tendência confirma, mesmo que temporariamente, as perspectivas que compartilhamos em reuniões anteriores. No entanto, é necessário cautela em relação ao otimismo excessivo, pois as previsões para o plantio nos Estados Unidos não são favoráveis.
Portanto, há uma série de aspectos a serem considerados ao analisar o panorama econômico atual, tanto nos Estados Unidos quanto no Brasil. A estabilidade e o futuro das políticas monetárias, bem como as expectativas do setor agrícola, são pontos cruciais a serem acompanhados de perto.
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Silage is used to varying degrees and in different ways on NSW and Australian dairy farms, depending on the type of feeding system the farm has. It can be an important component of your herd’s diet and given that producing it comes with additional costs compared to directly grazed pasture, it is important to make sure you do it well to make it economical.
My guest this month is Neil Griffiths, a well-known agronomist who worked for many years with the NSW Dept of Primary Industries as a Pasture Production Technical Specialist and has been heavily involved with the development and delivery of the nationally recognised TopFodder program which aims to develop your skills in successful silage making, storing and feeding. In this episode we discuss some of the key areas that drive profitable silage making.
Useful resources related to this podcast:
Register for Hunter Local Land Services 3 day TopFodder workshop with Neil Griffiths (starts 29/05/2023)
Wrapping Your Own Silage: The Hidden Costs of Owning and Operating Machinery (extensionAus article by Sam Henty includes worksheet and example)
NSW DPI Guide to Machinery Costs and Contract Rates (PrimeFact 2009)
Dairy Australia - Making Silage
This podcast is an initiative of the NSW DPI Dairy Business Advisory Unit
It is brought to you in partnership the Hunter Local Land Services
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