A North Yorkshire dairy farmer has gone back to self-feed silage and reckons it is saving the business £350/week in fuel and labour costs compared with the previous system. The 380-cow organic ...

A Farming Connect trial has shown losses of dry matter at feeding are between 21% and 30%. The trial involved two groups of sheep at Cae Haidd Ucha, a 125ha Farming Connect demonstration farm in the ...

THIS winter’s feed requirements are already on the agenda as silage cutting begins in earnest. A reserve of extra silage will give security for the coming year whatever the weather is like. Plans ...

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Water-damaged hay and silage can cause more stress to animals in need of good nutritious feed after a flood event, but AV lists methods that can make the most of it. First, it is important to ...

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As the time changes, I think I will have to bring the cows in at night. We can’t complain with this as we are nearly into November Dermot Walsh: 'I recently administered the salmonella vaccine to all ...

A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

A feed marketplace says it is well placed with more than 10,000 bales of silage, baleage and hay ready to roll out to farmers ahead of a hot, dry summer. An El Nino weather pattern has been declared ...

Feeding cattle can be a labor intensive process, and research at Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, North Dakota, provides some guidance on practices that can ease the time ...

At the height of the fodder crisis, when the Irish Farmers' Association and the Department of Agriculture were importing hay from France, and pictures adorned our TV screens of airport authorities ...