Winter Crop Meeting 2021 - A Virtual Series (Session 3 - January 28)

Winter Crop Meeting 2021   A Weekly Meeting Series
 Thursday, January 28 from 1pm - 2 pm

Jan 28   -   Corn Silage Hybrid Trials 2020 Update and Management Tips, Joe Lawrence Corn Silage Hybrid Trials 2020 Update and Management Tips

The Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program is a source of independent information on hybrid performance and a platform for conducting other work to better understand how to optimize the production of corn silage. Joe oversees the project with tremendous support from Margaret Smith, Tom Overton and their teams. The results of the 2020 trials will be discussed with emphasis on how 2020 growing condition's influenced both crop yield and forage quality. Forage quality was analyzed and utilized to predict how each hybrid would perform in a dairy feeding program using the Cornell CNCPS nutrition model to predict milk yield from cows fed each of the hybrid entries. A second study, comparing 4 different hybrids was designed to evaluate the growing season and equipment operation and their effect on the performance of forage harvesting equipment in consistently delivering corn silage hybrids that meet the narrow set of criteria set up by the industry for forage particle size and kernel processing. The resulting kernel processing scores and starch digestibility will be reviewed.

Virtual Winter Crop Meeting Series 2021

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