Too many producers are trying to save money at the expense of better yields. You can get higher forage yields, but you have to work at it
by PAT LYNCH
A quick check of the Ontario agriculture ministry’s record of historical yields by crop is interesting. In the last 20 years, soy yields have increased some, wheat yields have had a higher percentage increase than soys, and corn has almost doubled the provincial average yield in the last 20 years.
Forage yields on the farm have pretty much stayed the same over the past 20 years. Part of this is due to better quality and less volume, and part is due to the way data is collected. But the reality is that forages are treated less like a cash crop than they should be.