Looking Beyond the Visuals When Evaluating Corn Silage

Today's Dairy Delivery Podcast from Dairy Star is taking on a new format, highlighting dairy farmers and bringing together conversations with people throughout the dairy community. Each episode now includes three segments: a dairy expert conversation, a "Legacy Farmer" and "So You Think You Had a Bad Day" segments, which shares the challenges and perseverance found on dairy farms. You'll also hear a calendar of upcoming events for dairy farmers and a look at what's in the latest Dairy Star newspaper. This episode's dairy industry guest is Harkirat Kaur, corn agronomy extension specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She discusses why this year's corn silage crop may be more variable than last year and why visual ratings along are not enough to evaluate forage quality. Kaur also talks about what dairy farmers should consider before harvesting, how harvest timing affects nutrition and resouces available to help make decisions in the field. See what the Corn Silage Dry Down looks like in Wisconsin: connect.doit.wisc.edu/cornsilagedrydown/ More crop resources: badgercropnetwork.com Today's "Legacy Farmer" segment features Gary and Diane Hensel of Minnesota, who began with fewer than 15 cows and grew their herd to 50. We hear the successes and challenges they experienced along the way. In this episode's "So You Think You Haad a Bad Day" segment, we hear a story about an expensive day with farm equipment and the perseverance it took to move forward. New episodes are released every Monday after the newspaper is published, sharing the many conversations from the dairy community! Send story ideas and your comments to dairydelivery@ dairystar.com. Subscribe to the podcast for reminders of episodes – next episode will be released September 28 – about the dairy community and leave a review! We look forward to bringing you this brand new way to consume Dairy Star. This is Dairy Delivery. All dairy, all the time. Today's episode is sponsored by DRMS. Visit their website at www.DRMS.org/HerdHQ/What-is-HerdHQ. Calendar Links Parasite patrol tour Soy for cattle World Dairy Expo Dairy goat artificial insemination training program 4-H dairy tour