Key Points
- Cereal silage is different from pasture silage as a feed and needs to be treated differently
- Cheesy-dough GS 85 (about 40% DM) is the best time to cut cereals, so they will ferment well
- If you cut too early (at the milky dough stage), you are limiting your yields and starch content
- If you cut too late (more than 45% DM), the forage will not ensile well, and will be less digestible
- Monitor the crop using grain growth stages and by taking dry matter samples