Dairy Nutrition

When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility that makes it easy to love.

Weeds can reduce the quantity and the stand life of desirable forage plants in pastures and hayfields.

Harvesting and storing high-moisture corn can help producers get a jump on harvest; avoid drying costs; and put up a highly palatable, digestible, nutritious feedstuff.

Cover crops continue to work their way onto fields across the Midwest. While the benefits might be well known, so are the challenges in developing an on-farm system to work in each situation.