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Mountview Farming Trust are continuously trying new approaches to keep improving their dairy farming operation. Led by Alastair Neville, Mountview Farming Trust run an Autumn calving herd of 340-350 Friesian cows. Central to their operation is the utilisation of silage for winter milking, of which maize silage is a significant part of the diet. At […]
Good site preparation key to quality silage By Trish Lewis, Forage and Nutrition Consultant Good preparation of a silage stack or pit site before the contractor arrives is a critical component of making quality silage. It is a waste to cut a young, leafy crop of grass, wilt it well but then contaminate it with […]
How can you harvest the same maize, but get more of it? So you’ve done the ground-work, grown the crop, paid for it to be harvested and stacked, now what’s in the stack is what you’ve got, right? Unfortunately what you grow and harvest is not what you get. Once maize silage is in the […]
We have a change of guard taking place in the Bay of Plenty. After twenty years of loyal service to Nutritech, Stu Lister will retire at the end of January. Over the years, Stu has given so much to his role, the customers and the BOP / South Waikato area. When asked what he has […]
Did you know MAGNIVA® Platinum can also be a good inoculant choice for wholecrop cereal silage, grass silage and lucerne silage too? In the past many inoculant suppliers have talked about a “grass inoculant” and a “maize inoculant”, however this does not acknowledge the specific challenge that is occurring with each silage crop. […]
Developed thanks to a specific research and development program – to help drive growth rates, feed conversion efficiency and reduce mortality in broilers, OPTIWALL® offers balanced and guaranteed levels of mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) and β-glucans from batch to batch. OPTIWALL® is a feed material (EU Regulation 68/2013) that can be used to support the […]
Making high-performance cereal silage Cereals provide tremendous flexibility for silage makers – they can be sown in autumn or spring and can be harvested at a range of growth stages from chopping green at the boot stage (before seed head emergence) to cutting whole crop cereals at the cheesy dough stage (when the cereal grain […]
Save more of your quality feed with SiloStop® The original easy to seal stack management system “Switching to SiloStop® has been one of the best decisions we’ve made for our silage and peace of mind”. Says Ray and Jen Wiegersma. “Before we invested in SiloStop®, we dreaded covering the stacks, especially when it meant […]
It is that time of year again, when our pastures go reproductive, and the temperature / humidity starts to climb. Here are some things to consider as we head into summer: Fibrous feed We all know what happens once that pasture gets fibrous – feed intake drops and production goes with it. Aside from […]
