Corn Silage Workshop - Southern NSW/Northern VIC
Pioneer® Seeds invites you to a 'A Focus on Quality Silage' Workshop at Finley NSW. The workshop will focus on quality, profitability with corn through using corn silage in feed rations with Pioneer® Silage Specialist Jason Scott.
Date: Thursday 2 March 2023
Time: 11am - 2pm, lunch provided at Finley Country Club
The workshop starts at Flanagan Farms STRIKE (Seed Technology Research In Key Environments) site where the following topics will be covered:
- Corn nutrition for target yields
- Getting the most out of your land and water
- Brown Mid Rib (BMR) corn hybrids
- Current offering corn silage offering
- Long season maturity for early plant (October to early November plant)
- Mid season maturity for mid-season plant (mid to late November)
- Short season maturity for late season plant (early to late December)
- New experimental hybrids in the pipeline
We will then make our way into Finley to the Country Club for lunch and discussion on:
- Silage harvest set up, and considerations:
- Chop timing
- Benefits of getting the timing right
- Chop length
- Inoculant
- Stack hygiene - keeping dust down
- Stack compaction
- Stack coverage - plastics and oxygne barriers
- The impact on performance of high quality corn versus poorer quality corn
- Corn versus other sources of starch - wheat & barley
- Profitability of using different corn hybrids and NDF
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tim Lovell, Territory Sales Manager - 0427 342 188