In intensive cattle production systems, silage is the insurance farmers need for their feeding needs. According to livestock experts, away from grazing, feed storage for deferred use both as hay and ...

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 ...

Brazil is famous for corn and soybeans, but in the country’s toughest, driest regions, farmers are starting to look more ...

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 ...

If starch (from grain) is the fuel in a feedlot diet, fibre (from a roughage such as silage) is the engine governor that slows digestion. A backgrounding diet might contain 60 per cent silage to ...

Producing silage must now be a priority, and striving for quality must still be the aim, writes independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy. Cows and cattle will consume more top-quality silage, and ...

Since the mid-nineties maize silage use on dairy farms has steadily increased, with some farmers now feeding as much as 2 tDM/cow within a season. Initially, maize silage was mainly fed in autumn to ...

When silage is bad, it can negatively affect feed intake, immunity, growth and reproduction of ruminants. Richardt Venter gave these tips to gauge and manage the quality of silage. Silage is one of ...

How do you keep up with the continual demand for corn silage when inventories are running low or are no longer sufficient? This situation is often answered by purchasing additional loads of silage to ...