Silage is the lifeblood of livestock farming, and behind every high-quality silage operation is a powerful, reliable silage ...

Rainfall has helped improve hay and forage conditions in East Texas, according to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Courtesy of Michael Miller/Texas ...

As alfalfa seed prices climb and less snowpack levels leave alfalfa acreage at greater risk of winterkill, grasses are ...

Dry matter digestibility (DMD) is an indicator of the feeding value of a forage crop. In grass silage, it refers to the percentage of grass dry matter (DM) an animal must digest to support its ...

Dairy farms clamping grass silage with digestibility of more than 70% should have the courage to challenge their production of milk from forage. Substituting 1kg of concentrates with 1kg of top ...

For most farms, fertiliser is in the ground on their silage blocks and, for autumn calving herds and those that are winter milking, fertiliser would have been targeted in late March to avail of an ...

In his practical, non-nonsense Northumberland farmer way, Lloyd explained what he had done on his farm by bagging bales of fresh grass silage in 1979. He had the bags made locally especially for the ...

The farm consists of an out-block for rearing calves and heifers and also for making quality grass silage. The big driver of profitability on the farm is grass grown and grass utilised. They have been ...

Pastures managed with 30-20 cm had a high pre-grazing bulk density of total forage, grass, and legume leaf (P<0.05), and a high post-grazing grass leaf mass and bulk density. The highest pre- and post ...

Farmers are being encouraged to take advantage of high milk and beef prices by maximising the energy potential of every blade of grass this silage season. Lientjie Colahan, forage technical support at ...