Quality silage despite poor ensiling conditions.(News)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: January 27, 2001 | Copyright information

FORAGE consultant and co-inventor of Live System silage inoculant, Steve Edmunds from Somerset, was in the Province recently judging the Genus silage competition.

On his tour Steve met with the same situation time and time again - clamps of excellent silage with very contented cows and happy farmers.

This has been the picture all over Northern Ireland this winter, with many farmers opening their clamps to discover quality silage which reaches far beyond their ...

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