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He suggested that farmers who are depending heavily on silage to feed dairy herds and beef herds, and who cannot find seed for resistant corn varieties, should consider barley or wheat for silage next spring. “The small grain crops make high quality silage when properly harvested, that is, when the grain is in the early-dough stage of maturity,” White pointed out.
Barley and wheat at the soft dough-stage are sufficiently dry to chop directly without having to mow, windrow or wilt before ensiling. Their moisture content is still high enough to allow proper packing and storing in the silo, the extension specialist said.
If allowed to become too mature and dry before ensiling, field losses in the small grains can be high, White said. The materials will be too dry and fluffy to pack properly in the silo. Also, livestock will not eat the dry silage well and performance will suffer, he said. Properly made small grain silage should contain from 35 to 45 per cent dry matter. The small grain varieties used for grain production also produce excellent silage. Planting different varieties in different fields can help spread the harvest and the opportunities to catch each field at the proper moment.
“Properly handled small grain
silage is of Vine quality and
96.5%