Sentences with phrase «silage about»

Are we talking about cows that live and eat on pastures * 12 months * per year, or do they eat silage about 6 months per year (late Fall, Winter, and early Spring)?

Not exact matches

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.

For those in New England, Kate's Butter — a Maine product with fairly wide distribution — is mostly grassfed from about April through about November, when the cows get put on 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.