Some crop insurance policies bar farmers from chopping the corn plants for resale as silage. In other fields the nitrogen content of the corn stalks may be too high to be fed to livestock.

A few moisture percentage points one way or the other can have a big impact on silage value. "A rule of thumb is that silage is worth nine to 10 times the price of a bushel of corn," Hendrix said.

The bag is filled with the help of a grain wagon at a rate of 300 t/h. A silage bag with a length of 75 m stores about 250 t of maize silage, allowing for a possible harvest of 3 ha/h of grain and ...

Damaged corn can be harvested as either whole-plant silage or green chop, but, either way, growers and livestock producers need to be aware of how it can affect feed quality and animal health.

Some crop insurance policies bar farmers from chopping the corn plants for resale as silage. Crop insurance typically pays a farmer up to 80% of production costs in case of a total crop loss.