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Healthy, winter stock All housed farm animals need clean food, clean water and dry, clean beds but often the requirement for clean air is either underestimated or is difficult to...

Winter is just around the corner and you might be looking at ways to prevent wind and rain blowing through your open sided sheds and doorways. Everyone knows drafts are...

Easy fit Secure Windbreaks and Econoblinds can be used for permanent and temporary weather protection whilst still providing the necessary ventilation. Ideal weather protection for any livestock shed, barn and indoor arenas....

Farmers who chose to use conventional black plastic to cover their silage clamps could be losing up to 10% of their crop to aerobic spoilage as well as seeing a...

For Steve and Tom Cox of Manor Farm in Staffordshire, attention to detail is the key to producing good quality winter forage and maintaining high yields from their high input,...

Using black plastic to cover silage clamps could be losing you up to 10% of the crop to aerobic spoilage as well as a 20% loss in DM content. Silostop...

Introduction The upper layer of silage in bunker silos covered with conventional polyethylene film can deteriorate if oxygen ingress occurs by permeation through the top polyethylene film during the storage...

Mycotoxins produced by moulds reduce productivity, impair immunity and cause numerous health issues in animals eating contaminated silage. Moulds and mycotoxins are likely to be found in silage crops pre-harvest...

Summary Progress in the past 50 years is reviewed with reference to the major scientific disciplines involved in forage conservation. Hybrid cultivars of maize (Zea mays L.), the forage harvester,...

Trial data released by Silostop has shown that grass and maize silage stored under non-airtight conditions is susceptible to dry matter (DM) losses of up to 37% from the top...

Abstract Farm-scale bunker silos were filled with whole-crop maize and their top surfaces covered with either two layers of standard low-density polyethylene film of 150μm thickness, following normal practice, or...

We understand that harvesting corn is something you do every year, but as they say, you learn something new everyday. Today we are sharing some tips that  Steve Murty, Vita Plus...