Sentences with phrase «with silage»

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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.

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...

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.

Morgan won this year's P'ingredients Cookoff with such great recipes as Silage and Ham Balls (which is made with something called Ham Loaf).

But he wrote: «Let me try to reason with any in my party, the folk who want to launch themselves headlong into the silage, because I genuinely think that they (if they indeed exist) must be utterly nuts.

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.