Harvest time is here! At least for some.
“A little corn silage is starting to come off around the state,” says Dale Whitmore, District Manager for Dairyland Seed. “I’ve noticed people are just starting on that. I took my first silage plot off last week in Frankenmuth and moistures were about ideal.”
Whitmore says new HiDF hybrids are looking great this year. HiDF is Dairyland’s proprietary brand of corn silage hybrids. It stands for Highly Digestible Forage.
“Some of the new HiDFs look outstanding. We do have a couple of products we labeled dual purpose. They actually have excellent feed tests, but if you put the high DF tag on them, sometimes grain farmers aren’t interested in a silage product, but we do have some products that go well both ways.”
Whitmore says the HiDF line of hybrids offer higher milk per ton, providing a strong return on investment for dairy producers.
“We offer the same great yield, same agronomics that we have in our conventional hybrids, but it just has that extra edge for fiber digestibility. Fiber digestibility is a measurement of how much plant material that the cows can digest and utilize. Starch digestibility, starch content, it just seems to have an upper edge on all that stuff. You can get a little more milk out of it. You can add a few more pounds per day, possibly, on beef.”
To learn more about HiDF corn silage hybrids from Dairyland Seed, or to find a dealer near you, visit dairylandseed.com.
