Siting and design tips for trench silos and feeding areas
Guidance on locating silos to minimize runoff and wind exposure, with snow drift considerations. Recommends partial shelter, wide feeding surface for about 20 percent of cattle, and a solid floor to prevent quagmire. Warns that earth sides crumble and permanent sides are common.
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Tom King
Penn State Livestock Specialist
Preservation of Silage Through Proper Fermentation and Covering
Proper fermentation makes good silage but it must be packed immediately to exclude air. Wilted silage is harder to seal. rapid filling and packing are essential. Surface exposure and leaching cost nutrients, so covering with plastic sheetings greatly improves retained silage value, studies show.
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Department of Agriculture
Trefoil Pasture: Manage with Rotation for Longevity
Birdsfoot trefoil mixed with grasses is a valued Pennsylvania pasture legume with good drought tolerance and high forage quality. Continuous grazing harms European varieties Viking Mansfield and European common, which require rotation. Empire tolerates low grazing but should recover in summer and has weaker seedling vigor and productivity.
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Pennsylvania
Empire
Home Lawn Courses and Water Use Facts
A Penn State Agricultural Extension 10 lesson home lawn course covers grasses, soil prep, seeding, weed control and mowing with enrollment by mail. Also a water use feature notes that 115 gallons grow wheat for a loaf and 2,000 gallons produce a pound of beef, urging conservation.
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Agricultural Extension Service
Penn State University
Pennsylvania State University
University Park
Pennsylvania
United States
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