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Making the best grass silage possible is critical

With corn silage being so variable in quality throughout Europe in 2022 coupled with significantly increased input costs such as fertilisers and fuel ...

Bale and Bagged Silage

Silage that is baled or bagged offers a flexible storage system, especially for producers who lack space to build bunker/silo or drive-over piles. If ...

The role of fiber in silage and animal nutrition

Increasing intakes of high-quality silage are crucial to driving on-farm profitability, but to achieve this, producers must understand the role of fib...

Making Silage From Canola

Brassicas such as canola and kale are grown in many regions, mainly as a cash crop. But over recent years they have been used an alternative forage to...

Silage under temperature increase

Temperature increase is the main globally recognized parameter within climate change. All micro-organisms have an optimal temperature at which they gr...

Silage under drought

Lower rainfall (than historically predicted) is an observed effect of the changing climate in many countries (and a change to the seasonality of rainf...

How to construct corn/maize silo with the correct packing density?

 As silage can represent up to 50% of a dairy cow’s diet, it’s vital that the silage produced is high quality. Quality silage aids producers as i...

When planets are not aligned for your corn silage harvest

As ensiled forage can make up 50 percent of the DMI in dairy cow diets, the attention to their quality has a tremendous impact on the profitability of...

Maize crops

Globally, maize is the most used crop for ensiling and dairy production — making it an important part of many dairy operations. Growing maize and pr...