Looking to produce more milk from forage? Use our five point checklist to examine your clamp and see what lessons you can learn to improve your silage making next year.
Good maize starts with good preparation. Shropshire farmer Mark Fitton explains his approach.
Ensuring grass is cut at the right time to achieve the desired silage quality is paramount and leaving it late will result in a reduction in sugars, protein and digestibility.
For Shropshire farmer Mark Fitton, good silage is a key pillar for farm profitability. But it still has to be produced in a practical way.
Unwanted microbes in silage cause major losses in quality and quantity – not something you want if striving for more milk from forage. So how can contamination with these ‘bad bugs’ be reduced?
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