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Resources Tagged: Silage

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  1. Small-Scale Silage Production in the Tropics

    2017-10-04 The goal of silage preservation is the conversion of moist, chopped forage with a short storage life to preserved forage that can be fed to livestock as needed. Most legume and grass crops can be ensiled successfully. The key to good silage management is air exclusion to obtain the best...
    Silage Asia

  2. Grassland Conservation: Silage Making for Smallholder Farmers

    2017-10-04 The goal of silage preservation is the conversion of moist, chopped forage with a short storage life to preserved forage that can be fed to livestock as needed. Most legume and grass crops can be ensiled successfully. The key to good silage management is air exclusion to obtain the best...
    Silage Asia

  3. Silage Review: Unique Challenges of Silages Made in Hot and Cold Regions

    Abstract,Journal of Dairy Science, 2018 Silage makingcan be conveniently divided into field, ensiling, storage, and feed-out phases. In all of these stages, controllable and uncontrollable components can affectsilagequality. For instance, silages produced in hot or cold regions are strongly...
    Silage

  4. Forage conservation handbook for small farms

    This publication is concerned with the rising recognition of the place of fodder conservation in increasing livestock production. Surplus forage produced during the wet season can be conserved for use during the dry season. Guidelines and information that should be useful to the extension officer...
    Forage Plants Silage Hay

  5. Forage Cutter

    2002-01-01 This simple forage cutter provides a mechanism to chop tough grasses or other forages to make them more palatable and digestible for livestock. This results in more efficient food conversion for animals and reduced wastage. It can also be used to chop materials for compost, silage, vermiculture,...
    Forage Storage Silage Appropriate Techno...

  6. LACN Issue #1

    2017-03-30 Making Silage in Vichada Tech Note Spotlight: Biosand Water Filter Echoes from our Network: Member Highlight Adria and Job From ECHO's Technical Respose Team: Appropriate forage crops for clay soils From ECHO's Seed Bank: Forage peanut
    Cover Crops Silage Biosand Filter Biosand Water Filters Forage Appropriate Forage... Forages Tropical Forages Latin America and ...

  7. LACN Issue #2

    2017-07-31 Las Cañadas Agro-ecological Chickens Module Introducing New Team Leader: Cecilia Gonzalez Tech Note Spotlight: "Cafeteria Feeding" of Chickens From ECHO's Seed Bank: Ethiopian Kale Member Highlight: Javier Ignacio Silva Rivera Our Vision:Honoring God by Empowering the Undernourished with...
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  8. Small Scale Silage Making: Small-Scale Dairy Farming Manual

    This publication discusses the many types of silos and how to make silage.
    Silage

  9. Silage from Maize - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Without any air, finely chopped green maize ferments without rotting. This is because micro-organisms digest the sugars in the fodder and produce lactic acid, which acts as a natural preservative. The key to making silage is to create the right conditions for a...
    AccessAgriculture Maize Silage

  10. Silage Making for Small Scale Farmers

    How to improve the nutrition of farmers’ milking animals when each family keeps only one dairy cow? During the cold, continental winter, the major fodders available are wheat or maize straw, together with hay and concentrated feeds. As a minimum, it is essential to provide a green fodder...
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