{"id":3736,"date":"2014-04-16T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2014-04-16T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T18:30:38","slug":"corn-silage-trial-data-posted-digestibility-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/corn-silage-trial-data-posted-digestibility-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Silage Trial Data Posted, Digestibility in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NNYCornSilageHarvestJeffCo722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3738\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NNYCornSilageHarvestJeffCo722.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><strong>Cornell University researchers conducting the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP)-funded 2013 corn silage hybrid trials are calling producers\u2019 attention to digestibility data.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMost agronomists and animal nutritionists now believe that stover fiber digestibility is one of the most important hybrid characteristics affecting silage quality. Furthermore, some animal nutritionists believe that starch concentrations are no longer adequate in assessing corn silage hybrids for quality but rather starch digestibility of the grain is far more important,\u201d says lead researcher William J. Cox, a Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences professor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2013, Cox and Cornell University Crop and Soil Sciences professor Jerry Cherney collaborated with two NNY farmers to evaluate 37 hybrids in St. Lawrence County at the Greenwood Dairy Farm in Madrid and 39 hybrids in Jefferson County at Robbins Farms in Sackets Harbor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NNYADP2013CornSilageResultsPR.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click here to read more on the NNYADP 2013 Corn Silage Trial Results<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"Click here for the NNYADP 2013 Corn Silage Hybrids Trials research report\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click here to find the NNYADP 2013 Corn Silage Hybrids Trials research report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University researchers conducting the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP)-funded 2013 corn silage hybrid trials are calling producers\u2019 attention to digestibility data. &nbsp; \u201cMost agronomists and animal nutritionists now believe that stover fiber digestibility is one of the most important hybrid characteristics affecting silage quality. Furthermore, some animal nutritionists believe that starch concentrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}