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Corn Silage Processing
How can you tell if you did an adequate job in chopping and processing of your corn silage?  Are you overestimating the energy content of your corn silage?  There is a new test that will help to answer these questions.  It is called a corn-silage-processing analysis.  Click here to learn more about the new Corn Silage Processing Analysis

Degree of Starch Access (DSA)
This analysis can be used to estimate total tract starch digestibility of corn based feeds.  A more in-depth description and interpretation of results can be found on the following article:  DSA Information

Drought Stressed Corn
Dairy Cattle Feeding Tips for Drought Stressed Corn
Using Drought-Stressed Corn for Forage

Horses
Nutritional Values of Forages (Horses)

Mold/Toxins
Feeding Wheat Containing Vomitoxin to Dairy and Beef Cattle
Fumonisin, Vomitoxin, and Other Mycotoxins in Corn Produced by Fusarium Fungi
Mold and Mycotoxin Problems in Livestock Feeding
Use of Feed Contaminated with Fungal (Mold) Toxins (Mycotoxins)

NDF Digestibility
Enhanced Forage Evaluation
New dNDF Test Helps Troubleshoot Forage Problems
Understanding NDF Digestibility

Nitrates
Forage Nitrate Poisoning
Nitrate Poisoning in Cattle, Sheep and Goats
Nitrate Poisoning of Livestock

Particle Size
The Effects of Diet Particle Size on Animal Performance

RFQ
Relative Forage Quality

Sampling
Sampling Hay, Silage, and Total Mixed Rations for Analysis

Tests & Interpretations
Forage Quality Tests and Interpretations

UW Feed Grain Evaluation System Information
A guide to understanding prolamins

Corn Biochemistry: Factors Related to Starch Digestibility in Ruminants
Corn Biochemistry: Factors Related to Starch Digestibility in Ruminants slideshow
Relative Grain Quality - RGC
Technical Note: A Method to Quantify Prolamin Proteins in Corn That Are Negatively Related to Starch Digestibility in Ruminants
UW Feed Grain Evaluation System

Volatile Fatty Acid (Fermentation)
Guidelines for Volatile Fatty Acid (VFA)
Interpretation and Use of Silage Fermentation Analysis Reports

Additional Links
American Forage and Grassland Council
Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development
Center for Animal Health Monitoring
Feedsearch.com
Forage Information System
National Hay Association
Penn State Dairy Cattle Nutrition
Spartan Ration Balancing Software
The Dairy Forage System Model
University of Wisconsin Alfalfa, Red Clover and Forage Grass Research Extension
University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research
University of Wisconsin Dept. of Agronomy
University of Wisconsin Dept. of Animal Sciences
University of Wisconsin Dept. of Dairy Science
University of Wisconsin Team Forage
U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center
Wisconsin Corn Agronomy
Wisconsin Forage Council