With grass silage costing £150/t of dry matter to produce, no farm can afford to make mistakes when making, harvesting or clamping the crop. High on that list is how it is covered, and with what, says ...

With grass silage costing as much as €250/t of dry matter to produce, no farm can afford to make mistakes when making, harvesting or clamping the crop. If you have ticked all of the boxes in an effort ...

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There can’t be many jobs in farming more dreaded than sheeting and unsheeting silage clamps, with mere mention of the task sending friends and family scuttling off to other “more important” jobs.

Fodder used to make silage should have a moisture content of 60 to 70 percent or dry matter in the range of 30 to 35 percent. Silage and hay are preserved feeds that come in handy for dairy cows ...

Environment Minister, John Gormley, has signed new regulations restricting the number of tyres farmers can use to cover their silage pits. Under new waste management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) ...

Moulds can thrive in silage that’s not well managed, worsening the problem, advises independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy ...

A steady stream of trucks has made the trip back a small dirt lane on a farm outside Atglen for the last four days, all for the cause of helping fellow farmers. Vehicles filled to the brim with corn ...

With the silage making season now underway, Teagasc has urged farmers to take special care in managing and storing silage effluent. Andy Boland with Teagasc in Nenagh, said the wet weather in recent ...