Grass Silage Articles
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Magnesium Bioavailability Update
What have we learned about magnesium nutrition in animals during the past few years? Several research reports have been published which increase our understanding of Mg utilization. While an earlier generation of researchers concentrated more of their efforts on solving the grass tetany problem, recent research has emphasized the areas of absorption, bioavailability of Mg sources, the effects of ...
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French Fries to Dairy DMI: Using an Inexpensive Air Fryer to Determine Dry Matter
Measuring Dry Matter Accurately On-Farm With an Affordable Consumer Appliance When assessing the health and productivity of your dairy herd, dry matter intake (DMI) is one of the key data points to consider. If DMI is low, productivity suffers no matter the quality of the ration. Moreover, with low DMI, maintaining cow health becomes that much more ...
By Diamond V
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Project - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily Feeding: Grass silage, Maize silage, Chicken manure, Maize meal feed, Cow slurry Goal: replace the most expensive biomass (silage and corn flour), increasing the amount of grass silage and improving the viscosity into digesters To see video, please click ...
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Project - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Plant’s power: 500 kW/h Daily Feeding: Grass silage, Maize silage, Chicken manure, Maize meal feed, Cow slurry Goal: Increase the digestibility of grass silage, reduce the amount of silage and corn flour and improve the viscosity in digesters To see video, please click ...
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Project - Ramstein-Miesenbach Germany
Plant’s Power: 2000 kW/h Daily Feeding: Chicken manure; Corn silage; Grass silage; Horse manure; cattle slurry; GPS; Cattle Manure Goal: First startup of BioBANG on the biogas plant Read more To see video, please click here ...
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Project - Nuremberg Germany
Plant’s power: 1000 kW/h Daily feeding: corn silage, horse manure, grass Silage Goal: Optimize the cost of the daily feeding, reducing the quantity of corn silage and increasing the amount of grass silage and horse manure To see video, please click ...
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Project - Taunton England
Plant’s power: 3000 kW/h Daily Feeding: whole Cereal silage, grass silage, OFMSW and pig slurry Goal: to improve the viscosity into digesters and to concentrate the DM % into digesters To see video, please click ...
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Project - Dumfries, Scotland
Plant’s power: 1000 kW/h Daily Feeding: grass silage, wholecrop cereals, wholecrop maize, chicken litter Goal: we would consider broadening the scope of feedstocks (farm crops and manures) as and when they become available so the system will need a certain amount of flexibility To see video, please click ...
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Project - Thuin Belgium
Plant’s power: 800 kW/h Daily feeding: horse manure with straw, grass silage, corn silage Goal: to increase the gas production and reduce the viscosity To see video, please click ...
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Project - LIPSIA Germany
Plant power: 500 kW/h Daily Feeding: Corn silage, cattle manure with straw, grass silage Goal: Increase fiber digestibility to replace corn with manure, straw and grass, to optimize feeding costs To see video, please click ...
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How to make the most of grass silage first cut
First silage cut is essential for farmers as this cut will provide forage stock for the winter. Although nitrogen is essential to ensure the yield, other elements have to be watched closely, especially phosphorus (P). ...
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Starting of biobang - Germany - 30/09/2019
In date 09/30/2019 our technicians went to Ramnstein Miesenbach at the biogas plant ABO Kraft & Wärme company to BioBANG for the first time, recirculated on the primary digester of one of the two plant’s production lines. This plant produces 900 Nm3/h of biogas and is fed with about 90 t/day of products composed by cattle manure, horse manure, corn silage, triticale silage, grass ...
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Integration of the environment – flagship project for entire region - Case Study
Location: Stowell Farms, Wiltshire (England) Capacity: 499 kWel Input materials: Manure, grass and maize silage, feed remains Features: Processes the slurry of 500 herds of cattle into high-quality fertilisers. Digestion facility brings in revenues and helps boost the image of agriculture Stowell Dairies required capital investment to improve the dairy unit at East Stowell and to meet amended ...
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Five key lessons from your open grass silage clamp
Having results of a silage analysis is one thing. But often, it’s only when you get stuck into seeing what’s inside, and feeding it, that you get a full picture of what you’ve produced. And how good it is. The quality (and quantity) of your silage can have a major impact on the financial health of your business for six months or more. So, it’s worth checking it now, to ...
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The risks of spreading slurry after first silage cut
Livestock farmers spreading slurry onto fields after first-cut grass silage face heightened risks of contamination after this year’s early start to the season, a silage specialist is warning, especially if following the current trend to more frequent silage cutting.The risks of spreading slurry after first silage cut According to Ecosyl silage expert, Darran Ward, spreading slurry after ...
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Research highlights cattle emissions reduction opportunity - Case study
Researchers in Denmark have measured the quantities of greenhouse gases in the breath of dairy cows and demonstrated a heritable variability between individual animals. Researchers in Denmark have measured the quantities of greenhouse gases in the breath of dairy cows and demonstrated a heritable variability between individual animals. “This means that we have an opportunity to select for ...
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Research highlights cattle emissions reduction opportunity
Researchers in Denmark have measured the quantities of greenhouse gases in the breath of dairy cows and demonstrated a heritable variability between individual animals. “This means that we have an opportunity to select for breeding those individuals which will produce offspring that generate less methane,” says Dr Jan Lassen who led the research project on individual methane ...
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