Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other cud-chewing animals. What does a farmer require? To prepare your crop for silage, it must be chopped ...

With current technology, silage systems do not offer both reduced labor and low fuel inputs. Silage making has a low labor but high fuel input. Hay systems tend to be the opposite. The operating costs ...

Mowing, raking, and baling. I wish hay-making was that easy. For me, that sequence is too often interrupted by cussing the weatherman, tedding, and more raking. Making hay is a consuming summer ...

THIS book is one of the Rural Science Series, edited by L. H. Bailey, and designed to give the American farmer simple but accurate instruction in scientific agriculture. Some of the series, e.g ...

The Harvest Money Expo that began on Friday, February 14 and ended on Sunday, February 16, at Namboole Stadium is the crown jewel of the agricultural industry in Uganda. The three-day expo was ...

“Farmers we meet appreciate the package silage, saying it is cheaper compared to the hay they are used to ... Apart from making silage for sale, the machine can also be hired by farmers ...

(Credit: Mpalanyi Ssentongo) To ensure good pasture in the long run, Matovu said farmers should engage in the value-addition chain by making silage, hay and pellets. “Silage is moist feed ...