These systems work by shining a beam of broad-spectrum near-infrared light at the silage, slurry or grain the operator wishes to analyse. Depending on the make-up of the sample, different amounts of ...

The latest in our Contractor’s Yard series is father and son team, David and John Scobbie, based at Shannockhill, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. David established the agricultural contracting ...

Silage making time is a high risk time, due to the movement of machinery, persons and grass loads. However safety risks can be minimised by good planning and active consultation between farmers and ...

MANY farmers face business-changing or business-damaging costs from proposed changes to slurry and silage regulations. That was the message that rung out from the 120 farmers who tuned in to discuss ...

Fertilising for first-cut silage crops is just around the corner. First-cut silage is generally the cheapest forage to make provided of course you get the yield right. Silage is not a cheap crop to ...

Dairy research indicates that farms, where the first cut is not taken by the June bank holiday are much more likely to run short of silage in a difficult year. The value of slurry has essentially ...

UP TO 300,000 Irish homes could be heated by renewable gas within the next 10 years through a network of biomethane plants using silage and slurry in a €1.4 billion investment, a new report has found.

Farmers have been urged to store their silage, slurry and diesel appropriately following three major pollution incidents in Wales. Officers from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have recently dealt with ...

GRAZING silage fields in March/April improves the silage quality because it removes all the grass that has grown over the previous three to four months. Silage fields should be closed around early ...

Scottish government proposals to introduce new rules on the storage and use of silage, slurry and digestate have been condemned as “excessively blunt and ill-thought-out” and could result in farmers ...

A farmer responsible for a huge leak of silage that turned a brook black and killed dozens of fish has been ordered to pay £15,585 for breaking environment laws. Roger Hobill runs Grange Farm in Welby ...