You can choose to use napier grass as pasture or conserve it as silage or hay. Napier grass can withstand heavy grazing, but this must be compensated with good weeding, irrigation during dry ...

Harvesting maize or sorghum for making silage is ideal when their seeds are soft but not milky when squeezed open. Napier grass, on the other hand, needs to be about a metre high while legumes ...

In comparison with silage, the Juncao Napier grass variety gives them 18 tonnes in one acre which is at a higher level than the rest of the napier grass varieties. "Another advantage with this ...

As the rainy season approaches and farmers prepare for the transition from the dry season, one key area of focus is rangeland ...

Topping clamps of maize or grass silage with a layer of fodder beet can provide a ready-made total mixed ration without the challenges sometimes associated with ensiling this mix. Clamping crushed ...

Some crops are more easily chopped than others. For example, at a given length of cut corn requires about 70% of the energy needed to chop many grass and legume silages. Increasing corn silage cut ...

In cases where silage has to be stored in a large pit, tractors and other machinery are usually driven over the grass pile until it is firm. If the silage is stored as bales, baling machines will ...

So, what is the difference between hay and silage, and does it have the same nutritional value for your stock? While both products are generally made from grass and are used for feeding various ...

This year has certainly not been a vintage grass-growing year and there is a very mixed bag of silage saved across and within farms. Some of that silage is wet, some is far too dry, there is also ...

It is adapted to humid temperate areas with an annual precipitation of 16 inches or greater. This grass is very winter hardy, but also has good heat tolerance. It tolerates both drought and ...

It was a mild, wet winter and there was more grass coming through than traditionally would be expected but then the early summer weather meant the first cut was later for most people. We expect silage ...

You can choose to use napier grass as pasture or conserve it as silage or hay. Napier grass can withstand heavy grazing, but this must be compensated with good weeding, irrigation during dry ...