Dry matter

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 ...

CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TREAT YOUR CORN SILAGE?

With high input costs, it is now more important than ever for farm profitability that homegrown corn silages produce the best feed quality possible. ...

Clean Up Your Act: Feed Hygienic Silage to Avoid Health, Productivity Drops

At its best, the process of ensiling should retain as many valuable nutrients and dry matter (DM) from the original forage crop as possible. Once the ...

Clean Up Your Act: Producing silage cattle need and want to eat.

Throwing away spoiled silage is no fun, it adds to feed costs and is labour intensive. Even worse, feeding poor quality silage has reduced nutritional...

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...

Interpreting grass silage analysis

With grass silage still making a lot of rations silage analysis results are often overlooked as an important tool for ensuring that producers get the ...

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 ...

Making the best silage from drought stressed Corn

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...

New UK silage trial: inoculant increased FCM milk yields +1.9kg/d

A new UK-based trial undertaken at Reading University indicates that using an inoculant on grass silage can improve clamp stability, increase feedabl...