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Focus on corn silage

Written by Joe Lauer, Damon Smith and Kevin Jarek
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The first Focus on Forage session of 2023, Focus on Corn Silage, features Dr. Joe Lauer, UW Corn Agronomist, Dr. Damon Smith, UW Plant Pathology, and Kevin Jarek, UW-Madison, Division of Extension Crops/Soils Educator.  

The webinar was designed to assist farms and agronomists in their corn silage management decision-making and lead to improved economic return from Wisconsin’s corn silage acres.

Dr. Lauer details agronomic management factors that lead to optimum corn silage yield, economic return, and forage quality.  Dr. Smith relays current best practices for managing tar spot and gibberella diseases in corn silage and recent fungicide trial results for recommended products.  Jarek relays base budget numbers per corn silage acre and how producers’ own costs and in-field variability may impact production economics.

Additional resources

  • Wisconsin Corn Hybrid Trial Results for 2022
  • Wisconsin Corn Agronomy, Corn Seed Price Calculator
  • Dr. Damon Smith’s Plant Pathology Extension website
  • Pricing Standing Corn Silage article and spreadsheet
  • Crop Enterprise Budget spreadsheet

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