Making Best Maize Silage

At maize harvest, although weather windows dictate play to a large extent, you have control of a number of factors that influence the quality of maize silage.
This Farming Note covers:
• How to manipulate silage quality with cutting height
• What should govern chop length
• What counts as ‘good clamp consolidation’
• How to achieve this

Issued September 2015.
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