After developing a strong aversion for wrapping bales in the field where the baler dropped them, Geoff Eyre wasn’t a fan of the somewhat tedious job of collecting wrapped rounds and steadily loading ...
From a distance, neighbouring farmers checking the back 40 would see little black dots in the paddocks that might resemble cows grazing, evenly spaced. But as they approached, they would see the round ...
He was commenting on the differences between pit and bale silage for dairy farms and said that each method produced different quality silage and affected how paddocks were rotated through this peak ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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