Late silage making will help reduce winter feed shortages

A FLURRY of late silage making activity around the country in recent weeks proved how unrelated practical farming is to the calendar.

Making silage in mid-October will help to reduce winter feed shortages. Farmers were lucky that there are yet no regulations demanding that silage work be completed by the usual August deadline.

Growing conditions have been superb since early September, even if farming-by-the-calendar regulations had ruled chemical nitrogen application in mid-September.