The family had stopped using herbicides on the farm in the mid-1970s, and in the early 1980s, Albert replaced tilling fields, used to
grow silage, with a no - till method of planting, to prevent soil erosion and reduce fuel consumption.
Not exact matches
In addition to the dairy operation, the Silacci family
grows about 25 % of their own high - quality feeds (organic alfalfa and clover) and all of their organic pasture grasses and
silage on 196 acres of rolling hills and pasture.
The mold also
grows on corn stalks used as
silage to feed cows.
The draw of this game is the ability to plan out your own farming business, from which crops to
grow, to what farming equipment to use to do that most effectively, and figuring out how else you could be using the land to make profit, like logging or selling
silage from cows.
Stop at Cordine Dairy Farm where Cornelis Hertger shows off his state - of - the - art milking parlor and Holger Schwichtenberg's Dairy Farm who took it over from his immigrant dad to see the
silage grasses and corn
grown for the cows.