Farmers and ranchers who need to preserve feed for their livestock over the winter or during periods of drought often turn to bagging silage. Silage is grass or other green fodder that has been ...

Silage is the material produced by controlled fermentation, under anaerobic conditions, of chopped crop residues or forages with high moisture contents. Desirable characteristics of material used in ...

Animals feed in one of the dips at Eldoret Technical Training Institute Kapseret area in Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] For farmers in livestock enterprises such as dairy cows and goats ...

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

Coming into land at Dublin Airport after a week spent under the bright skies of the Iberian Peninsula, I was overjoyed to see such rich and exuberant green colours from the window of the plane. My ...

Farms relying on big bale silage to feed cattle should have an idea of its nutritional value – and ideally get some feedback on their field management. The simplest way to do both is to take a sample ...

Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there, but on the other hand, if you can see it, the problem might not be too bad either. I scratched my head as I listened to my self-proclaimed ...