With corn silage harvest underway or starting soon, in many areas the main focus is on optimizing the yield and nutritional value of this important feed ingredient, and rightly so. Trusting that plans...

Whether it’s the order of crops and fields to harvest or simply getting machinery where it’s needed and loads timed out correctly, harvest is essentially a thoughtfully planned symphony in...

While I was searching for information sources to use for a different writing assignment, I came across a Penn State Extension article that discussed managing weeds

The past several months’ future markets with corn, soybeans, and milk have been a wild ride. Over the past 15 years, I can’t recall a period like the one we’ve experienced as of late

It is Corn Silage Harvest 2023 here at Hillcrest Farms. This year we have been blessed with rain and a good corn crop

This season, I find myself switching gears between farm work and wedding planning

Corn silage harvest means all hands are on deck to make the best feed we can for our cows

Corn for silage will be planted soon, if not already, and harvested during the summer

The season for harvesting small grain silage is fast approaching. In some parts of the U.S., small grain silage may already be fermenting in the storage structure

Harvest management is known to be one of the primary factors that influences forage quality on the farm . . . especially when it comes to the hay crop

While farmers are currently preparing for corn grain harvest, they need to consider phantom yield loss, moisture, and soil compaction

“The 2019 harvest season was hard on equipment and it was hard on people,” said Kevin Jarek, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension agent

As farmers head from September to October, there are still decisions they can make on perennial forages

After logging 3,400 miles of windshield time through the heart of America’s cropland from September 14 to 18, I came away with this finding — this could be a banner crop year

‘Tis that time of year again. Everyone’s on edge for obvious reasons; harvest is a pretty big deal. For a lot of the country, it seems like corn in 2020 will be better than it was 2019, and...

“Never stand behind a horse” were the words my grandfather periodically repeated during my childhood at the farm. Thanks to him, I learned at a young age that I could be kicked and severely...

Assessing crops and planning creative ways to store silage are factors farmers are facing heading into the 2020 corn silage harvest

With the 2020 turmoil, I sense this time of the year brings excitement and a sense of purpose for many