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Grass+ Section 8

Published 23 December 11

Planning Your Silage-Making

• Understanding the key factors influencing production costs.
• Improving the integration of conservation and grazing.
• Calculating silage requirements.
• Preparing fields and clamps.

Objective: To plan to improve overall grass utilisation through better integration of silage-making and grazing.

Challenge: Calculate your current utilised silage DM cost. Establish how to reduce this cost by 10% Develop a plan to more effectively integrate conservation with grazing.

You are able to download the content of section 8 of the grass+ programme. The full programme is available via post from this link.