Crop Enterprise Budgets & Economics

WI Team Forage

Papers

oContracting Corn Silage Acres / Mike Rankin, Crops and Soils Agent, UW-Extension-Fond du Lac County.

Pricing Corn Silage at Different Moisture Levels (Table 2)

oChoosing Between Alfalfa and Corn Silage ...or when do you trade Medicago for Maize? / Mike Rankin, Crops and Soils Agent, UW-Extension-Fond du Lac County.

oCost of Production in Rotation Alfalfa and Corn Silage / Gary Frank, Farm Management Specialist, UW-Madison, Center for Dairy Profitability.

oEstimating Corn Silage and Grain Yields / Mike Rankin, Crops and Soils Agent, UW-Extension-Fond du Lac County.

oEstimate the Value of Standing Corn for Corn Silage / Gary Frank, Farm Management Specialist, UW-Madison, Center for Dairy Profitability.

oBy-Product Feedstuffs in Dairy Cattle Diets in the Upper Midwest / Randy D. Shaver, Extension Nutritionist, UW-Madison, Department of Dairy Science.

Typical Nutrient Composition of Common Feed Ingredients (Table)

oEquipment Sharing and Other Joint Ventures / Gary Frank, Farm Management Specialist, UW-Madison, Center for Dairy Profitability.

oEquivalent Price/Ton of High Moisture Ear or Shelled Corn vs Price per Dry Bushel: conversion tables for converting wet ear corn and wet shelled corn to its dry corn price equivalent. Developed by Jeff Key, Winnebago County and Gary Frank, Center for / Jeff Key, Agricultural/Farm Management Agent, Winnebago County and Gary Frank, UW-Madison, Center for Dairy Profitability

Enterprise Budgets

oAlfalfa Low Moisture Silage, non-irrigated, no establishment costs - 1999

o Corn silage non-irrigated (1st year after sod) - 1999

oCorn silage non-irrigated (corn on corn) - 1999

oHigh Moisture Rolled Ear Corn non-irrigated - 1999

oDirect seeded non-irrigated (establishment cost) - 1999

oOatlage-alfalfa establishment non-irrigated (establishment cost) - 1999