Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2019
Most feeds arrive on farm in a Bulk blown lorry and are fed in the parlour. Farmers feeding straight feeds however buy Artic lorry loads @ 28 tons at a time and these are tipped is straight stores. 27 years ago Research at the then Experimental Husbandry Farm on Exmoor, Liscombe, noted that straights like Barley and Sugarbeet as well …
See previous blog June 2018 Simon Montgomery Devon and Cornwall Representative of Nickerson Seeds Direct, had the privilege to see 8 Cornish finest producers on their silage qualities on their 2018 made silages, reporting back on their field day in April 2019. As again Judging was in according with the standard BGS schedule on scoring grass silages, Dry Matter, ME, …
A Customers requested compound feed quotations from 4 different suppliers to be fed out at grass, he requested a full breakdown of each and on entering all feeds into a database. The following was reported: (Compared to Wheatfeed, which makes up a large % in most compound feed rations) From above: No feed even achieved, let alone exceeded declared protein …