Experts discuss the merits of switching from small square bales to either wrapped round bales or bagged haylage and silage for a small dairy farm.

“By knowing exactly what nutrients your forage provides, you can fine-tune rations, avoid toxicity risks and stretch your ...

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 ...

As the time changes, I think I will have to bring the cows in at night. We can’t complain with this as we are nearly into ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Using a “film-on-film” approach to bale wrapping could see farmers getting up to an extra 15 litres of milk from each bale of silage. The yield boost is mainly due to the increased amount of feed ...

THERE is much needless waste of silage in wrapped bales all over Australia. Needless because often only a small attention to detail or slight changes to management can stop or at least reduce ...

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 ...

The discovery of hundreds of tonnes of illegally dumped waste disguised as silage bales near Edinburgh has prompted the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to launch an investigation. The ...