Roger Evans: "You have never made silage unless you have made vacuum silage"

This month, Roger Evans describes the practice of vacuum silage and discusses the art of discretion

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Roger Evans: "You have never made silage unless you have made vacuum silage"

I rarely feel inferior and if I do I usually keep it to myself. But I often do when I turn the pages of Dairy Farmer. It's the pictures of silage clamps that usually does it. They are usually pristine...

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