UK Dairy Day: Advice for feeding first and second cut silages after a challenging season

Silage quality has held up better than expected after a dry, difficult season – but with forage stocks running short, dairy farmers are being urged to calculate stocks and plan now to avoid winter feed gaps

Katie Jones
Editor, Farmers Guardian and Dairy Farmer
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UK Dairy Day: Advice for feeding first and second cut silages after a challenging season

Massey and Harpers Feeds analysed over 700 first and second cut silage samples and speaking at UK Dairy Day, David Wilde, national ruminant technical manager for The Massey Harpers Group, said average...

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