Forage harvesting

By Karen Lee, Progressive Dairyman
Dave Jauquet farms with his wife, Stacy , 10 full-time employees, and two part-time employees at Jauquet’s Hillview Dairy LLC in Luxemburg, Wisconsin. They milk 535 cows three times a day, with fresh cows milked six times a day. The herd averages slightly more than 31,000 pounds of milk with 3.75 fat and 3.15 protein.

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Double-cropping is a practice in which more than one crop is grown and harvested on the same ground in a given year. Double-cropping helps to naturally control pests, weeds and diseases while encouraging healthy soil.

Although this trend is rather new to the Midwest, producers in the south have been double-cropping for a long time.

Dairy producers have many double-cropping options available, according to Pat Hoffman ,...

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Dairy producers have been experimenting with harvesting corn as Shredlage TM and snaplage. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Randy Shaver has been conducting feeding trials of these feedstuffs to see how they perform in the cow. He shared his results at the Vita Plus Dairy Summit, Dec. 5 in Merrillville, Indiana.

Shredlage
Currently, Shredlage processing rolls are only available on Claas choppers. These provide a longer...