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Nutritional value of silage: Maximising feed on your farm The importance of knowing the nutritional value of silage is key for making the most of one’s fodder supplies, according to Teagasc. Eamonn Dempsey, Teagasc advisor based in the authority’s Kerry office, outlined the visual assessment and lab assessment farmers can avail of to ensure they know what they have. First looking at visual assessment, Dempsey said: “Silage that is excessively dry will be prone to heating, mould growth and secondary fermentation. Where bad preservation does occur, it further reduces dry matter digestibility as well as reduces intake potential of the silage.” ....
January 21, 2021 6:10 am The key to improving utilisation of a forage crop is to choose the correct crop for your farm and farming system. Different crop species have different sowing times, utilisation periods and dry matter (DM) yield, Eamonn Dempsey, a Teagasc advisor has said. Talking about the different types of forage crops and how to best manage these crops when being grazed, Eamonn offered the following advice. Finishing lambs on Typhon or Rape For finishing lambs post-weaning, rapid growing crops such as tyfon or rape are most suitable as these can be sown in April so that the first grazing will coincide with weaning time in June/July. ....