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Silage bale wrapping, new trend in fodder packaging lasts two years

A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...
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It looks dry, but some corn's too wet for silage, specialist says

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers ready to give up on their arid corn crops and cut them for animal feed might want the inside scoop on the stalks first. The plants could be too wet internally to make ...
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Plastic wrap producers targeted under proposed 'Green Farms' scheme

Producers of plastic baleage and silage wrap may soon have to pay towards efforts to increase its recycling, but the Government said it had no immediate plans to ditch the plastic used. Baleage and ...
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Lighten Up: It's a wrap (a silage wrap) for Brad Pitt in West Cork

So for the past year, or thereabouts, Brad Pitt has been with me here on the farm in Kilmichael, learning all the skills of the trade, writes Denis Lehane in this week's Lighten Up While on the farm, ...