Farmers have learned to live by one of life’s biggest lessons – always expect the unexpected. But sometimes even the unexpected can still cause us to pause and scratch our heads. That’s the feeling ...

After those experiences, I set about building roadway to all silage fields, as well as doing a good bit of tile drains in the ...

Another normal grass silage field yielded eight bales per acre and has now been ploughed and set with a red clover silage mix. Another normal grass silage field yielded eight bales per acre and has ...

Last Sunday evening, Pete noticed something a little different on the silage field behind our heifer barn, writes Aherla dairy farmer Paula Hynes. Last Sunday evening, Pete noticed something a little ...

Grassland farmers may need to tackle dock infestations in silage fields in the next few weeks, as the early spring led to first cuts being taken before these tough perennial weeds could be treated.

"I don't want to lose a bullock to a golf ball," says farmer 14-06-2017. Paat Shortt, in his silage field outside Clane, Co. Kildare, where trespassers had came in and cut large circular patches with ...

Making silage late into the autumn is no longer the exception to the rule, with farmers ignoring the calendar and opting to cut when quality grass is available. The rules of making late-cut silage are ...

It's still early to harvest the corn and the soybeans, but farmers in the northern reaches of the Miami Valley are going from corn field to corn field chopping the corn into silage to feed the cows.

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