Fergal O'Sullivan spoke to Frederick de Boer of Flingk Machinebouw, about its range of feeding and bedding equipment to see ...

On the former and its potential as a pollutant, Mr Fallon said: “Silage effluent has a biochemical oxygen demand of 80,000 mg ...

With grass silage costing £150/t of dry matter to produce, no farm can afford to make mistakes when making, harvesting or clamping the crop. High on that list is how it is covered, and with what, says ...

Surface waste presents a problem from several perspectives. n Loss of valuable fodder, n Labour cost required to remove the waste and dispose of it in the spring n Reduction of silage quality The ...

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Environment Canterbury has confirmed it has located 11 properties with silage pits in protected drinking water zones across South Canterbury in the wake of Timaru’s dirty drinking water woes. The ...

Concerns have been raised by Farm Contractors Ireland (FCI) and the Health and Safety Authority over potentially dangerous silage pit heights. In a joint statement, they said recent reports of ...

Brian Reidy is a beef farmer and independent ruminant nutritionist with Premier Farm Nutrition, based in Cahir, Co Tipperary. If you have ticked all of the boxes in an effort to make good quality ...

When I logged into ICBF to see how the breeding season is going, the weekly fertility report told me my submission rate was 70pc for the cows and 88pc for the heifers. I was a bit disappointed with ...