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For the same period last year, we received 314mm of rainfall. The silage season commenced early, and although yields have been slightly down (seven to eight bales per acre), quality has been ...
"I know you got to win games an and find a way, but honestly, it's like having Ferrari's and using them to spread silage." The game played out in front of a miserly attendance of 12,879 at ...
From getting the first-cut of silage in under textbook conditions to having one of the best breeding starts I’ve seen here in Abbeyleix, it feels like we’re off to a flyer this year. We got the ...
1997; Vieira et al. 2017). Cassava root silage preserves the nutritive value of the fresh product and decreases its concentration of hydrocianidric acid, which is present in significant amounts in the ...
Joe also works at a local college. We grow a good percentage of the farm for arable silage: some we sell to other farms, some we keep for ourselves for the contract-reared dairy heifers.
Growing up on a family dairy farm in Co. Kildare has always meant that silage season, at least for me, has never just been about securing feed for next winter. Every year we approach it with a mixture ...
The characteristics of fermentation and aerobic stability were evaluated in corn silage inoculated with different doses of Lactobacillus buchneri. The whole corn plant (300 g/kg DM) was ensiled in ...
The winning photo will see the farmer receive 2t of Goulding's Sweetgrass fertiliser. You have full access to farmersjournal.ie on this browser until 9pm next ...
Join Henke Contracting on an impressive journey through advanced green forage harvesting and GPS silage collection using state-of-the-art agricultural machinery. This video showcases how Henke's ...