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TAKING EARLY silage this spring may help avoid a costly long-term loss of pasture quality, say rural professionals, as pasture covers nationwide reach unseasonably high levels.

THE DROUGHT has caused on-going pasture deficits on many farms, and in the past few weeks many farmers have asked me how much maize silage they can feed. 

A SILAGE block cutter is helping a South Island farmer keep his silage stack fresher and has eliminated wastage, says machine importer Webbline.

IF YOU are making pasture silage this spring, research shows it is worth doing the job properly. A trial in the 1997/98 season at DairyNZ’s No 1 farm compared the milksolids production of cows fed a low pasture allowance plus 5kgDM/cow/day of high- (10.4 MJME/kgDM), medium- (9.4 MJME/kgDM) and low- (8.3 MJME/kgDM) quality pasture silage in spring, summer and autumn.