Producing top quality, palatable and nutritious silage is never easy, especially when farming in Scotland’s unpredictable climate. However, Aberdeenshire animal scientists Dr George Whitelaw and his ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

ELLA, Iowa, September 13, 2011 â Two state-of-the-art bale-wrapping systems, designed to help producers turn silage bales into individually wrapped high-nutrition silage packages, were introduced ...

A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

THIS winter’s feed requirements are already on the agenda as silage cutting begins in earnest. A reserve of extra silage will give security for the coming year whatever the weather is like. Plans ...

Silage is perhaps the most common form of conserved forage on UK farms, but it may not be the cheapest incorrectly stored. Per Lingvall, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, told ...

In the most recent review of the Nitrates Regulations (2010), changes were introduced to the way silage bales may be stored. Farmers may need to re-examine how they store silage bales, particularly ...

THE people of Leitrim are getting creative with bales – and it’s all part of a competition to find the most stylish silage in Leitrim. Entrants are asked to decorate their silage bales as individually ...

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