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As we are about a month out from peak silage season, it is timely to consider the issues that are going to affect the quality ...
Dairy farms clamping grass silage with digestibility of more than 70% should have the courage to challenge their production ...
About a million hectares of first-cut silage will be harvested in Ireland this year. In this two-part series, Thomas ...
Over the spring, a lot of silages that were fed had a detrimental effect on animal performance if sufficient concentrates were not fed. It’s the beginning of April, and first-cut silage is just ...
While big-bale silage is well accepted today, Michael Moroney looks back to the early days of the system and his first ...
Over the past two years - due to the wet, late spring weather - the opportunity to control docks in silage ground has proven difficult.
Only youngstock and dry cows graze, while the milking herd gets a ration based on grass silage, maize silage, wholecrop cereal and crimped barley. Farmers Weekly asked the Barracloughs how they ...