Efficiently managing silage for dairy cows

With the winter housing period on dairy farms, a close eye should be kept on the quality and quantity of silage being used to feed the cows. Climate change is certainly throwing some curve balls into our weather systems recently and this year has been no different. Farmers will be somewhat happier that the milder autumn has stretched the grazing season out a bit over the last season with grass still growing in late October. Grass is by far the cheapest feed available for dairy cows and the lo