Fiber digestibility directly impacts intake and intake directly impacts production. These fundamental nutrition concepts are ...

In intensive cattle production systems, silage is the insurance farmers need for their feeding needs. According to livestock experts, away from grazing, feed storage for deferred use both as hay and ...

James Mugerwa, a mixed farmer in Mukono explains that protecting animal feed quality is an important aspect of grain feed stocks. Mugerwa says that to minimise spoilage, smallholder farmers can bag ...

Sorghum is one plant sometimes used for silage. Scientists at Kansas State University say this fermented livestock feed produces nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, but that they have uncovered a ...

High-quality red and white clover silages have allowed a Powys sheep farm to shave nearly £2 a head from the purchased feed ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

Not all sorghums produce the same results when fed as silage to beef and dairy cows. By: Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Sorghum silage can provide an alternative to corn silage, ...

My daughter had a strange tale from her adventures on the elementary basketball bus this fall. Whenever the bus passed a ranch, she and a couple of her fellow cattle-loving friends would have the same ...

Wilmington, Delaware, United States, Transparency Market Research Inc. – , March 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global silage film market, valued at US$ 2.9 Billion in 2023, is projected to grow at ...

BISHKEK, Jan 12 (Kabar/APP): With state support, the Kyrgyz State Breeding farm has been actively expanding its operations in recent years, boosting its production capacity.

Grass silage makes up around a quarter of the annual feed budget on the average dairy farm. It is essential then, to have a plan in place to avoid deficits both in bulk and feed value. What happens on ...

Even though many have not finished feeding silage yet this spring, next season’s crop must be planned for. Temperatures look like being suitable for growth over the coming week, and hopefully beyond.