Farmers planning to make baled silage should look carefully at the costs involved. A lot of bales have already been made after a jump in grass growth in early April. Have you sat down to do the ...

Poor fermentation, damaged plastic and crop contamination can all contribute to mould and waste in bale silage. Brian Reidy ...

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 ...

According to Teagasc higher energy and fertilizer prices will increase the cost of baled silage so farmers need to focus more on how to improve silage quality while minimising costs at all stages.

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Cornext, which is building a fodder ecosystem to support dairy farmers, has announced that it has raised a funding of $2.2 million in a seed round from Omnivore. Cornext supplies silage bales to dairy ...

A Farming Connect trial has shown losses of dry matter at feeding are between 21% and 30%. The trial involved two groups of sheep at Cae Haidd Ucha, a 125ha Farming Connect demonstration farm in the ...

A new range of bale and silage trailers, built by Heath Engineering, will be sold in the UK by Oxfordshire-based PK Sales. PK’s owner, Paul Kelloway, enlisted the fabrication skills of Heath – which ...

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