Silage Management Tips & Farm Insights

If you asked a group of dairy farmers in Central Wisconsin to name their least favorite job on the farm, you would probably get a unanimous answer: covering the bunker silo. Imagine it from an outsider's perspective. You’ve just spent two straight weeks working...

It is Winter in Wisconsin. The temperature is 10° below zero, the wind is howling, and the TMR mixer is waiting. You climb up the icy slope of the bunker to peel back the plastic for the day's feed, and you hit the wall—literally. The "wall" is a row of whole tires,...

Harvest season is a race against the clock. When the corn is at the perfect moisture and the rain is coming, you have to keep the chopper rolling. But in the rush to get feed into the bunk, many farms are doing long-term damage to their greatest asset: their soil....

In the dairy industry, we spend a fortune on seed, fertilizer, fuel, and chopping to get the crop into the bunker. But once the packing tractors shut down, many farms stop managing the pile. This is a costly mistake. The invisible thief on every dairy farm is silage...

For generations, the "tire pile" has been a fixture on dairy farms across the Upper Midwest. It’s a resource bank for harvest time—a heap of free weights waiting to be thrown onto the bunker to seal in the year's feed. For a long time, the logic was simple: the tires...

The "Covering Party" is Over: Solving the Labor Crisis with the Right Equipment It’s 8:00 PM in late September. The choppers have just pulled out of the yard. The bunker is packed, the plastic is laid out, and now comes the most dreaded phrase in dairy farming: "Time...