Q: Can you share a little about your custom silage harvesting schedule and what states you travel to? We’ve got four chopper machines running in different locations, and we travel from Texas, Oklahoma ...
Often hay and forage crops are grown on ground too rough, steep or unsuitable for row crops. This makes field and machine preparations especially important for safe operation. Some steps to help ...
New generation delivers a Guinness World Record in performance and significant gains in efficiency. OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CLAAS, a global leader in agricultural equipment, has ...
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High-performance forage: The CLAAS 970

Watch the CLAAS 970 forage harvester as it efficiently processes whole crop rye. See this impressive machine tackle the ...
How dairy producers can use technology in the field to unlock forage quality. The CLAAS JAGUAR line of forage harvesters give dairy producers a leg up during harvest time. With a wide variety of ...
Claas’s Jaguar 980 produces 884hp (670kW) with its massive 24-litre, V12 MAN engine to make it the brand’s highest producer of grunt (Krone’s Big X hits 1100hp/820kW) and there’s good reason for it. A ...
TIMELINESS is critical for making good quality silage and owning a forage harvester means you do not need to rely on a contractor arriving on time. But most farmers will only be able to justify owning ...
Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other cud-chewing animals. What does a farmer require? To prepare your crop for silage, it must be chopped into ...
Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...