For many dairy and beef producers, the final piece of the winter/spring forage jigsaw will be put in place once their maize silage is safely in the pit. I mentioned in a recent article that the 2024 ...

Silage is the material produced by controlled fermentation, under anaerobic conditions, of chopped crop residues or forages with high moisture contents. Desirable characteristics of material used in ...

IT IS one of the most popular forage crops in the world and now maize is becoming a fodder option for a number of Tasmania dairy and beef producers. This week the team from Andurt Silage were busy ...

Provision of enrichment in welfare- and environmentally-friendly pig pens is important for sustainable pig production. The primary aim of the present experiment was to investigate the effects of maize ...

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This study is led by Dr. Fang Jingyun (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University). Silage maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the ...

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production. This is the conclusion of a multi-year comparative study conducted by ...

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 ...

Harvest was completed earlier than I ever remember. Yields were back a bit, especially the wheat, which I put down to the awful spring of 2024. That held the maize back, which, in turn, held up wheat ...