Every year, hay producers in southwest Missouri are faced with a dilemma that puts the practice of harvesting quality forage in jeopardy. “In this region, much of the grass hay and alfalfa needs to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new 0 Series round balers will be available for order next month with arrivals expected in time for the 2018 hay season. There are four models that carry on from the 9 Series balers and Deere said ...

THE stacking of round bales of silage more than two rows high could create problems for farmers under the controversial nitrates directive. Farm inspections under the new directive will look at the ...

LARGE, round bales of silage, tightly-wrapped in polythene, are so much a feature of today's countryside that we don't notice them until they are stacked to make a "snowman" or similar figure to catch ...

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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 ...