A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

A pest-repellent bale wrap that protects plastic against bird and rodent attack is set for launch later this spring. The product, developed by plastic film specialist Rani Plast, could help save ...

ELLA, Iowa, September 13, 2011 â Two state-of-the-art bale-wrapping systems, designed to help producers turn silage bales into individually wrapped high-nutrition silage packages, were introduced ...

Silage is perhaps the most common form of conserved forage on UK farms, but it may not be the cheapest incorrectly stored. Per Lingvall, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, told ...

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ON 87% of farms producing big bale silage, mould is present on a large portion of bales. However, this problem can be avoided. Baled silage is now made on two thirds of all farms in Ireland and ...

LAKE BENTON, Minn. — When you’re in the registered cattle business, there is just no choice but to secure winter feed to ensure proper calving in the spring. If you don’t have high-quality feed, you ...

THERE is much needless waste of silage in wrapped bales all over Australia. Needless because often only a small attention to detail or slight changes to management can stop or at least reduce ...