Sentences with phrase «silage on»

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

Forage Treatment Silo - King ® is Agri - King's multi-purpose forage and grain treatment program for use on corn silage, haylage, large and small square bales, round bales, balage, high moisture cracked grains and small grain silages.

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.

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.

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.

The mold also grows on corn stalks used as silage to feed cows.

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.

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)?

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.

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).

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.