Volac silage expert Ken Stroud discusses the weather lessons learnt from the past few years, and what we can do to prepare for them.
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?
Not one, not two, but three recent winners of the Federation of Welsh Grassland Societies’ (FWGS) all-Wales clamp silage competition conserved their grass silage with Ecosyl additive. Find our more in our latest article.
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