A practical guide to properly wrapping grass bales, preserving nutrients and ensuring high-quality haylage for livestock.

Because of high moisture content of haylage and its storage in an air-tight environment, the forage ferments and is preserved by acid produced during fermentation. The air-tight environment is ...

A lot goes into making high-quality hay. Perhaps the primary way to produce the kind of hay that will give top milk and meat production is to cut the hay at the optimum stage of maturity. Whether it’s ...

Most everyone in the livestock business agrees that using plastic for baled forage is a great tool that benefits both the farmer and livestock. However, proper disposal of the plastic after it has ...

SAVING time, labour and machinery, wrapping inside the bale chamber might seem like the easiest and quickest way of applying film. But developing a system which works effectively has created a ...

John Tremain’s haylage business has rarely seen such times. As fast as haylage can be placed into bags, the forklift loads them on to a lorry and off they go to customers. “In the 10 years we’ve been ...

The UK’s first haylage workshop will take place on 3 March at Vale View Equestrian Centre, Leicestershire. Organiser the British Grassland Society has put together the event to address the issue of ...

Q: This winter, I have decided to change from hay to haylage. I have never fed it before and I am a little worried about stories I have heard about botulism in haylage production. Can you put my mind ...

Coming in off the busy country road is a large, open field with a narrow channel at one end leading into a further three creating a complex of paddocks spanning about 30 acres. Bordered by thick ...