Dairy
For most farms, fertiliser is in the ground on their silage blocks and for autumn calving herds and those that are winter milking,..
Dairy Technical
Farmers harvesting first-cut silage are being warned of "possible fermentation issues" and urged to take preventative action to reduce....
Silage remains in the diets on many herds, with grazing conditions continuing to pose a significant challenge on many farms.
Although there are still many cows in the shed, and grazing has not fully taken off yet, it's now...
Slurry has a massive role to play on farms as it can be used to replace nutrients within the soil, and after silage has been harvested is a key time for this to happen.
There is often an aim to cut silage crops early and harvest as high a quality silage as possible, but why is this such as important target.
Although current weather conditions wouldn't suggest it, the harvesting of first-cut silage crops is just over two months away for most farmers.
An important job to be completed over the coming weeks is a fodder budget to determine how much of a fodder reserve is on the farm.
On the recent 'Let's Talk Dairy' Stuart Childs, dairy specialist with Teagasc spoke about the control of silage effluent and planning for second cut.
