Paul Locher explains how early settlers of Ohio country would have harvested corn, detailing the tools they would have used.
The amount of corn, leaves and husks will vary with growing and harvest conditions. Cattle will select the grain and best quality forage first when initially turned into a field. As cattle continue to ...
The person who originated the adage, “It beats a snowbank” may have been thinking about feeding corn stalk bales. However, like most forages there can be quite a bit of variability in nutritional ...
Grazing cows on corn stalks is a long-standing, common practice to reduce feed costs. Grazing calves or yearlings on corn stalks is much less commonly done, but does represent an opportunity to ...
We’ve been experiencing some nice weather so far this winter, so what does that mean for our corn stalks? Today, we dig a little deeper.
Corn stalk rots (SRs), characterized by the presence of symptoms or pathogens signs, cause changes in tissue structure that compromise the translocation of water and nutrients (Denti and Reis 2001) ...
Alfalfa can be an effective supplement for feeding cattle in the winter, writes Ben Beckman, of Nebraska Extension.
Now in its 8th year, the Organic Vegetable Production Conference (OVPC) provides a space for vegetable growers to learn from ...
I understand the desire to make places look more festive. Still, I’m not sure why people are paying good money for corn stalks, bales of hay, and, in some cases, colored leaves. All my life, fileds of ...