Forage
Health check for silage aftermaths
After last year’s difficult forage-making conditions, many dairy and livestock producers and their advisers will be focused on maximising silage stocks this year. CF Fertilisers has launched an online Aftercut Silage Health Check to give valuable guidelines on how to...
read morePasture for Life mark now in Ireland
The Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (PFLA) is now able to certify Irish farmers and processors interested in gaining third party assurance for 100% grass-fed meat and dairy. The organisation’s “Pasture for Life” certification mark has been operating in the UK for...
read moreEurofins launches dry silage analysis
Analyst business Eurofins Agro, part of the international Eurofins Scientific laboratory services group, says it is introducing a new method of testing silage, used elsewhere in the world but not widely available in the UK before now. The test dries and grinds the...
read moreAnglesey unit is BGS Grassland Farm 2018
The British Grassland Society (BGS)’s 2018 Grassland Farmer of the Year competition has been won by dairy farmer Richard Rogers of Tre Ifan Farm in Anglesey. The herd of 350 NZ cross-bred spring calving cows, only established five years ago, generates 4,099 litres of...
read moreEFA derogations to increase forage stocks
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has relaxed certain Ecological Focus Area (EFA) requirements in England under the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) to enable farmers to harvest more forage. But the derogation, agreed by the European Commission, is strictly a one-off in...
read moreLatest forage and biogas maize list from BSPB
The 2019 British Society of Plant Breeder’s (BSPB) 2019 Forage Maize Descriptive Lists (DL) contain seven new first-choice varieties, along with one new second-choice variety. The 2019 Lists aim to give farmers and heir agronomists a range of varieties to choose from,...
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