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 ...

Silage season is a high-risk time on any farm due to the long hours, time pressure and increase in the level of activity of tractors and trailers and silage harvesters on our country roads and ...

Forage preservation can be an attractive alternate to cover farmer feed problems to ensure regular supply of fodder even in periods of acute shortage to get optimum production from dairy animals. The ...

Baling has begun in paddocks north of Hopetoun and B- double loads of oaten hay are making their way to hay exporters, as well as to dairy farms in Gippsland. All the hay being delivered at this stage ...

Josephine is a dairy farmer and trainer in animal production. After years of working with various agricultural organisations, the livestock extension specialist who holds a Master’s degree in climate ...

I am sitting at the table writing this article on the day the clocks change and for the first time ever we are doing fifth cut Lucerne silage on a “winters” day, but amazingly it’s still polo shirt ...

The long lasting spell of sunshine across the country has sent silage season into overdrive with endless outfits of tractors, trailers and harvesters racing through the meadows. Meanwhile, classic ...

Pottinger of Austria is the company with the target of changing silage harvesting as we know it. Self loading silage wagons make up one quarter of Pottinger's 124m euro annual sales. And the 131 years ...

Forage preservation can be an attractive alternate to cover farmer feed problems to ensure regular supply of fodder even in periods of acute shortage to get optimum production from dairy animals. The ...