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Maize silage harvest is running two-three weeks late in most areas because of later planting and cooler-than-average early summer temperatures.
The last few seasons seem to have delivered many challenges on farmers: the milk price is more variable, weather patterns are more unpredictable and environmental regulations are much tighter.
As a result of the last two seasons’ historically low payouts many farmers have become very cost focussed.
Some talk in the marketplace suggests reducing maize silage growing costs by decreasing planting population.
Pioneer nutritionist, Dr Bill Mahanna, recently wrote his 52nd and final column for Feedstuffs, a pre-eminent USA feed and feed industry magazine.
The grass has never really fired this spring and as I travel around the country it appears many farmers will have little surplus for silage.
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