Initial costs for this system are minimal, and storage costs are less than ensiling in concrete bunker silos or bagging silage. |
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When this line reaches the midpoint of the kernel, 90 percent of the final kernel dry weight has been achieved and silage yields reach a maximum. |
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A combined area of new and existing cattle sheds and silage yards of more than 300 square metres will also require planning permission. |
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Is the field of concern a grazing paddock, intensive silage field or reclaimed bog? |
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He grows oats, turnips and grass for silage and has introduced 140 Highland cattle, who remain its only occupants. |
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If a bird needs to eat the flies which thrive on uncut grass tussocks, then regular cutting of the grass for silage is going to be a problem. |
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Corn silage is best when conditions are good, but a combination of corn and forage sorghum isn't far behind. |
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Grass silage and root crops such as turnips, kale and potatoes are often fed during the dry period. |
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Forage sorghum produces silage containing more digestible energy than legume and cool-season grass silage. |
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Most of the corn was harvested and stored as silage, with the remainder custom harvested as dry grain. |
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Now farmers cut grass for silage, two or three cuts a year with the first cut in mid-May. |
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In the longer term, there is no feed to be made into hay or silage for winter feed for that stock. |
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These cows eat grass all summer, turnips and silage in the winter when they're tucked up in the shed. |
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Forage crops provide fiber, energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals to cows and may also be harvested as hay or silage for later feeding. |
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Autumn calvers need high quality silage fed to appetite, right through the Winter. |
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When pasture was not available, hay or silage harvested during periods of excess pasture growth was fed to meet forage requirements. |
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Corn harvested for silage yields one-third more feed nutrients per acre than corn harvested for grain. |
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Calcium and phosphorous levels in maize silage are also low relative to grass silage. |
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Grass which is to be used for silaging must be harvested at the optimum growth stage for making the best quality and quantity of silage. |
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When silaged the fall rye was fairly mature and dry, it was put into the bottom of the silage pit so it would mix with the other silage crops. |
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He feeds silage when lack of rain reduces pasture potential, ensiling sorghum-Sudangrass, soybeans or pasture clippings in trench silos. |
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Meanwhile silage vehicles and the discharge of slurry by jet spray will require specific licences to go on and off farms. |
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Adding silage effluent to slurry greatly increases the level of poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas produced. |
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Direct chopping and ensiling this wet corn can cause heavy seepage and a sour silage. |
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Another approach is to apply less nitrogen and cut silage at the usual time of year. |
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Soybeans stunted by lack of rain or damaged by hail can be salvaged as hay or silage. |
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So many fields have changed colour, almost overnight due to the large numbers of farmers being able to harvest the silage crop in record time. |
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Forage varieties can be drilled in May and just one harvest will provide three to six tons of high protein hay or silage. |
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Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage. |
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Tractors cannot be used on land to convey fodder to feeding sites and farmers have to carry in hay or silage on their backs. |
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Gerry favors a high forage diet, preferring baled hay and haylage over corn silage, and says that the cows require no additional protein. |
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Some farmers are experiencing a dearth of grass and have released the dairy cows and beef cattle onto the silage fields. |
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This is a critical problem for Irish cattle farmers who rely so much on grass silage. |
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Farmers are reverting to clamps of silage or traditional haymaking which is very difficult in the conditions which are far from ideal. |
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A farm here is extraordinary, a huge thing, mostly hidden from a distance bar its fine silage clamp. |
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It normally yields 300 tonnes of whole-crop silage which is placed in a clamp constructed from square bales of grass silage. |
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The storage of silage on the pad is an agricultural use and not development. |
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It had been his intention to construct the silage clamp as a single structure. |
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The striking sight of big black bales in silage stubble fields is welcome in this difficult year. |
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At least 30 peer-reviewed studies from grain, silage and green chop were analyzed. |
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Thus the potential nutritive value of uncut silage swards is limited, and the emphasis must now be on conserving them as an edible feedstuff. |
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He also urged farmers to regularly inspect drains and watercourses downstream of the farmyard once silage making begins. |
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It not only promotes appetite, but also enables the masking of unpalatable feedstuffs such as poor hay and silage. |
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His rations change daily according to available feedstuffs like citrus pulp, brewers grains, sorghum silage and other by-products of the area. |
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But recently developed inoculants, with more effective strains of fermentation bacteria, are producing slightly better quality silage. |
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This research, coupled with lactation studies at the center, showed how much milk-production response could be achieved with silage inoculants. |
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On the farm diesel and silage wrap will rise and consequently the farmers margin of profit will be cut. |
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While making forage into silage also removes nutrients from the soil, the product is more difficult than hay to transport. |
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The quality of alfalfa and corn silage, two primary dairy cattle forages, has increased, providing more energy for milk production. |
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The finishing diet consisted of corn silage, chopped hay, whole corn, cracked wheat, and supplement. |
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The combination of air and wet silage and heat make an ideal environment for yeasts and fungi to multiply. |
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The recent deluge has left most cattle farmers in a crisis situation as regards grazing management and silage cutting. |
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The addition of straw to the diets of all animals on the farm will allow silage supplies to be stretched. |
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Grain sorghums should not be grazed or greenchopped but can be used to make silage. |
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Although many may be greenchopped or used as silage, they are mainly used for grazing. |
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Pits can be opened 10-15 days after ensiling but the silage will be unstable, as fermentation will not be completed. |
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A company spokesman said very little silage had been cut and the season was already about three to four weeks behind time. |
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Animals with more time available for finishing have the option of meals at a lower level plus silage or silage only with ad lib meals. |
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Proper use of slurry and fertilizer are essential to the recovery of silage aftermaths right now. |
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As silage aftermath becomes available it provides an opportunity to turn attention towards the grazing areas. |
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In the fields, grass-land management work is making ready for the first cut of silage which will help see animals through winter. |
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Almost 100 bales of silage wrap, eight bales of straw and a number of tyres were destroyed as the blaze spread to his property. |
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The relaxation of restrictions on the movement of farm machinery will be of particular value in the context of those who now wish to cut silage. |
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The sales of combine and silage harvesters dropped slightly, due in large measure to the difficult working conditions of the previous year. |
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The silage season of 2002 will be remembered as one of the worst in living memory. |
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The depletion process is accelerated, however, when cotton is grown in rotation with high K-requiring crops such as alfalfa and corn silage. |
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Then calves are dosed and moved to clean pasture such as silage aftergrass. |
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Many silage pits have been sampled, with the samples analysed to establish silage quality. |
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A silage heap surrounded by the bales also caught fire and a fire break was made using a mechanical digger. |
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Elephant grass is commonly used in a cut-and-carry system, feeding it in stalls, or it is made into silage. |
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There was a noticeable trend towards the use of combination baler and wrapper machines among contractors and farmers making round bale silage. |
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Instead of him hauling silage into the barn and manure out, the cows do it now, he says. |
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The diet was primarily finely rolled milo, with sorghum silage, soybean meal, urea, and ammonium sulfate. |
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If silage effluent enters a stream or river, it leads to a rapid increase in bacteria and other micro-organisms who use up the available oxygen. |
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The large acreage increase came mainly from those farms growing Bermuda grass hay instead of corn or sorghum silage and experiencing relatively low hay yield. |
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Instead, he has already cut much of it for silage to feed his cattle through the winter. |
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Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales. |
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Farmers are now aware that silage effluent is highly polluting. |
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If good quality silage is fed ad-lib to dry cows, energy intakes will exceed requirements which can result in over fat cows at calving with its associated problems. |
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Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage because grass growth declines drastically in the winter. |
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The pathologist said it would be fine to use this corn for silage. |
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Perennial ryegrass is a bunch grass suitable for hay, silage, or pasture. |
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The local farmers have had an awful task to deal with their silage and baled hay this season with the weather spoiling and causing so much hassle. |
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Corn production for grain or silage is possible in Eastern and Southeastern Ohio on land reclaimed to modern standards after being surface mined for coal. |
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The Romans had introduced dry vegetable fermentation with their development of silage as cattle feed, but the process was not extended beyond this for many centuries. |
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It was also pointed out that a fence was necessary to stop cattle from getting onto the boat club land and to stop dogs fouling pasture meant for silage. |
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In the first three studies, cows produced somewhat less milk when fed red clover silage because they ate less of it and ingested almost 20 percent less protein. |
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Maize silage and whole crop cereals are two such alternative forages. |
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Now farmers in Sligo who want to be sure if the weather is going to be right for silage or hay or spraying can avail of a new localized weather service. |
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Some farmers were also concerned that foot-and-mouth might be brought on to their farms by contractors making silage so did not want to use their silage clamps. |
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Where there are heavy and lodged crops on these soils making baled silage might be a better option than using conventional harvesters with modern heavy trailers. |
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Fish kills provide the most dramatic form of pollution, arising from discharges of silage run-off, manure slurries and sewage and industrial waste. |
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At present there is surplus silage on many farms and the advice is to use up the bales by early summer and to seal up any silage left in the clamps. |
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A silage harvester went on fire on Tuesday, May 18 at Clone, Aughrim. |
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Corn, alfalfa, wheat, oats, and sorghum crops are often anaerobically fermented to create silage. |
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Stands of silage maize are yet denser, and achieve a lower percentage of ears and more plant matter. |
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Maize used for silage is harvested while the plant is green and the fruit immature. |
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Here the maize is harvested, shredded then placed in silage clamps from which it is fed into the biogas plants. |
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Concrete is one of the most frequently used building materials in animal houses and for manure and silage storage structures in agriculture. |
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For animals that eat silage, a bale wrapper may be used to seal a round bale completely and trigger the fermentation process. |
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Chaff may also be emptied into a bagger, which puts the silage into a large plastic bag that is laid out on the ground. |
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How closely the fodder is packed determines the nature of the resulting silage by regulating the chemical reactions that occur in the stack. |
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These two qualities have made ryegrass the most popular grass for silage making for the last sixty years. |
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Plastic sheeting used for sealing pit or baled silage needs proper disposal, and some areas have recycling schemes for it. |
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Molds that grow when air reaches cured silage can cause organic dust toxic syndrome. |
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Bulk silage is commonly fed to dairy cattle, while baled silage tends to be used for beef cattle, sheep and horses. |
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The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage. |
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Chinese wild rye and corn silage are major roughages which are commonly fed to cattle in China's dairy farms. |
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Enzyme, bacterial inoculant, and formic acid effects on silage composition of orchardgrass and alfalfa. |
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In the present study, it appears that feeding BF-based silage did not deleteriously affect liver function. |
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Field pea is one of forages that is difficult to ensilage and silage additives must be used during ensilage. |
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Production of silage under a temperature of 27-35 degrees C will turn out doffer with good quality fresh, green, and not affected by fungus. |
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John Davies As well as farming sheep and suckler cattle in Breconshire, Mr Davies provides holiday lets and runs a silage contracting business. |
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Different species and the characteristics of epiphytic LAB might change and influence fermentation process and silage quality. |
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Quantification and identification of fungal propagules in well-managed baled grass silage and in normal on-farm produced bales. |
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But they also found deficiencies in the Near Infrared Spectroscopy method of assessing silage. |
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Today ensilaging can occur not only in siloes but also in silage wrappers. |
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Are animals wallowing in mud and manure along streams, is silage leachate running down road ditches or do milk house drains discharge into streams? |
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DiFlexx herbicide, which provides broadleaf weed control, application flexibility and crop safety in field corn, corn grown for silage, white corn and popcorn. |
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He might do a third cut of silage, or he'd tighten up around the place in preparation for the winter, or he'd be still going off doing blocklaying jobs. |
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Maize silage is one of the most valuable forages for ruminants. |
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The latter are thanks to the return to the practice of leaving the cutting of grass for hay or silage until wild plants have had a chance to seed. |
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Total titratable acidity of annual ryegrass silage made with anthesis stage ryegrass was only one tenth of the acidity of booting or heading stage. |
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Collapsing silage from large bunker silos has caused deaths. |
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The fermentation process of silo or pit silage releases liquid. |
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However, a silo is still a preferred method for making silage. |
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Enterobacteria and mold growth were not observed in pea silage at 0 day. |
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Its main jobs will include square baling and buckraking on silage clamps. |
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Kokoma or guinea grass is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage. |
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