Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other cud-chewing animals. What does a farmer require? To prepare your crop for silage, it must be chopped into ...

To cope with the busy workload, he invested in three new Massey Ferguson tractors over the past 18 months to make a total of nine of the brand’s machines in his fleet. These include the 130hp MF 6614, ...

LAHORE: The Punjab government has approved a Rs667 million two years project to subsidize silage machines to help the livestock farmers making silage (grass or other green fodder compacted and stored ...

It marked a return to the concept after 11 years in hiatus and organiser Mark Cockerell said there was enough encouragement to continue with it. “The initial feedback we got was really positive so ...

Grass and other pastures are among the most commonly used animal feeds, largely due to its availability, especially in the wet season. However, it is quite a task to cut the grass into small edible ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) says it has secured a silage packing machine and accompanying new technology that will improve access to nutritious feed material for dairy cattle nationwide ...

James Mugerwa, a mixed farmer in Mukono explains that protecting animal feed quality is an important aspect of grain feed stocks. Mugerwa says that to minimise spoilage, smallholder farmers can bag ...

Going from strength to strength, this was the 8 th year of the popular west Co. Cork silage working day, which saw 50ac of ...