Silage

Once the silage pit is open, it is important to keep the clamp face clean to prevent high levels of waste forage accumulating.

With housing ramping up on cattle farms, here are some tips for indoor herd management.

The reduction in grass growth this year is equivalent to the total dry-cow feed need for most dairy herds.

Having the loader tractor and telehandler serviced as winter feeding gets under way is good practice on livestock farms.

After the challenging 2023 season,contractor Jonathan Kirkpatrick invested in a Pöttinger twin-rotor rake with plastic skids instead of wheeled bogies, to reduce grass contamination

Shaun Diver gives an update on what has been happening on Tullamore Farm this week.

The movement of 48,132 bales and 19,114t of fodder was supported by this measure, with 24 co-operatives participating in the scheme.

Having bought his first skid steer second hand in 2006, Justin Claffey decided to upgrade in 2022 for a new Manitou 1900R model. We get his thoughts 400 hours on.