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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a choice of sizes to suit everything from a one-man silage-making operation on an upland farm to a professional contractor serving several customers, modern silage wagons have the capacity to a ...

Watch this powerful machine tackle forage harvesting with speed, precision, and efficiency.

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