Sentences with phrase «of silage»

Having experienced, lived and breathed the farming life helps you to understand what clients face on a daily basis: the 2 am phone calls to say the stock has escaped; the 5 am call to say the relief herdsman hasn't turned up and you are needed to help with milking; the stock feed round every day of the year including Christmas Day and bank holidays; the rules, regulations and requirements to comply and ensure your produce is properly accountable and marketable; the constant monitoring of and worrying about the weather; the crucial timings of silage cuts and harvest, and the list goes on.

Quality is such an important part of silage that if a producer is even a half inch short on irrigation, it can affect silage quality, he said.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE With barely a sound, the red and white International Harvester feed truck unloaded a mix of silage, barley and rice to a dozen pregnant cows, releasing a...

The silage and hay made last year has seen ample volumes of fodder conserved, only adding to the carry overstocks of silage from 2016.

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Kuhn, product specialist, Tom de Greenlaw said managing nutritional quality and cost of production underpinned a silage enterprise.

Feeding animals on badly prepared silage can adversely affect the quality of several varieties of cheese.

Large dairies, milking more than 2000 cows, in Gippsland have been feeding silage and other supplements since the start of the year.

The family had stopped using herbicides on the farm in the mid-1970s, and in the early 1980s, Albert replaced tilling fields, used to grow silage, with a no - till method of planting, to prevent soil erosion and reduce fuel consumption.

Silage and grass quality is one of the most important factors to consider when making nutritional decisions and formulating diet.

Their balanced, vegetarian diet consists mostly of fresh pasture grasses, silage, and hay, as well as purchased animal feeds that are 100 % certified organic and verified non-GMO.

In addition to the dairy operation, the Silacci family grows about 25 % of their own high - quality feeds (organic alfalfa and clover) and all of their organic pasture grasses and silage on 196 acres of rolling hills and pasture.

Many sources of «grass - fed» beef today are simply from cows in feedlots eating silage year round.

In the North Bay Coast region of California, with long wet and dry seasons, the cows eat a diet of 50 — 80 % forages, which include fresh grasses, silage, and hay, depending on the time of year and pasture growth.

Laforsch and his colleagues looked at several different kinds of biowaste that's composted and spread on farmland in Germany, including household compost and grass clippings, supermarket waste and grain silage leftover from biogas production.

«We are keen to see whether we can also confirm that higher quantities of methane are produced when corn silage or sugar beets are used,» said Nikolausz.

Before you run out to your local butcher shop to buy what they have on hand, consider this: According to this study, the CLA content of grass - fed cows is 300 - 500 % higher than what is found in cows fed 50 % silage and 50 % grain.

Korhonen M, Vanhatalo A, and Huhtanen P. Effect of Protein Source on Amino Acid Supply, Milk Production, and Metabolism of Plasma Nutrients in Dairy Cows Fed Grass Silage.

A comparison of the aroma volatiles and fatty acid compositions of grilled beef muscle from Aberdeen Angus and Holstein - Friesian steers fed diets based on silage or concentrates.

Silage can be made from many field crops, and special terms may be used depending on type (oatlage for oats, haylage for alfalfa — but see below for different UK use of the term haylage).

The superstructures are identical to those of the tipper trailers, for the volume increase silage attachments can be mounted.

This student spent an amazing amount of time analyzing the fat and sugar content of hog feeds: corn, acorns, fermented silage, scraps, walnuts, etc..

The draw of this game is the ability to plan out your own farming business, from which crops to grow, to what farming equipment to use to do that most effectively, and figuring out how else you could be using the land to make profit, like logging or selling silage from cows.

Stop at Cordine Dairy Farm where Cornelis Hertger shows off his state - of - the - art milking parlor and Holger Schwichtenberg's Dairy Farm who took it over from his immigrant dad to see the silage grasses and corn grown for the cows.

Whether Claimants entitled to have land treated as set - aside land for purpose of entitlement to compensation if in calendar year or if in cropping year immediately preceding claims they had sown, cut & used for silage, grass.