Farmers are increasingly turning to high-moisture corn silage, specifically earlage or snaplage, due to its high energy content and easy digestibility.

Start of September saw us pregnancy-scan 425 milkers. We expected to be disappointed as the wet spring and low-energy grass ...

The grass situation has improved well here in the last week with growth rate holding at 50kg DM/ha. I went up to 5kg of nuts for two weeks, but then the cows started to clean out the sections as well ...

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It will be months before the full extent of agriculture losses are known in Haywood, but a windshield survey shows plenty. Acres of ripened tomatoes still hanging on brown and withered vines, green ...

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 ...

With the Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA) Farm Machinery Show at Punchestown rapidly approaching, ...

Slow, smoldering silo fires are frustrating to both farmers and firefighters. Here's how the Oakfield Fire Department tackled ...

Changes in silage production could help cut greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Agriculture is the largest source of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions in the United States. N 2 O is the third ...

However, once deputies arrived, they noticed the cat wasn’t in the tractor but in the corn head silage cutter attachment. A silage cutter is a piece of farming equipment meant to cut produce ...

Now, the fields are green again, but as Mr Curtis takes me out in his tractor, he has a bale of silage on the front. "We're taking feed out to the cattle, even though it is late May," he said.

A varied collection of tractors, machinery, implements and tools will be going under the hammer this weekend at a Shropshire ...