Every year, hay producers in southwest Missouri are faced with a dilemma that puts the practice of harvesting quality forage in jeopardy. “In this region, much of the grass hay and alfalfa needs to be ...

Haylage is defined by Michelle Shooter of North Carolina Cooperative Extension as round bale silage. It is simply forage baled at 50 to 60 percent moisture rather than at the 18 to 20 percent moisture ...

After developing a strong aversion for wrapping bales in the field where the baler dropped them, Geoff Eyre wasn’t a fan of the somewhat tedious job of collecting wrapped rounds and steadily loading ...

ELLA, Iowa, September 13, 2011 â Two state-of-the-art bale-wrapping systems, designed to help producers turn silage bales into individually wrapped high-nutrition silage packages, were introduced ...

From a distance, neighbouring farmers checking the back 40 would see little black dots in the paddocks that might resemble cows grazing, evenly spaced. But as they approached, they would see the round ...

He was commenting on the differences between pit and bale silage for dairy farms and said that each method produced different quality silage and affected how paddocks were rotated through this peak ...

The farmer’s job with regard to round bales is straightforward enough — ensure the crows and the mice don’t have it all their way, and try to have a decent bit of silage left for the cattle come ...

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Farmes are being urged to ensure machinery is safe and employees are properly trained after a farm worker was paralysed by a falling silage bale. Burnley farmer Geoffrey Eccles was fined £10,000 and ...

Video footage has captured the raw power of a the River Teifi in Wales as a large round bale of silage, which can weigh up to a tonne, is thrown along in the torrent. The footage was captured on the ...