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Weather can create difficult conditions for making silage

Jager Robinson
Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020 Updated Feb 10, 2021

Chopper-head blades chop silage in the field.
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As the 2020 growing season continues through relatively dry weather with spots of moisture, Renato Schmidt, an animal nutritionist for Lallemand, spoke to producers about the different kinds of adverse conditions silage production can have during the 2020 Silage for Beef Webinar series put on by Iowa Beef and the University of Nebraska.

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Tractor and wagon in field — Corn-silage harvest is well underway in the north-central region of Wisconsin.
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Reach Reporter Jager Robinson at 605-335-7300, email jager.robinson@lee.net or follow on Twitter @Jager_Robinson.