Brian Reidy: Plan carefully for next winter's feed

Grass silage quality is so heavily determined by weather conditions meaning that a bad season pre-harvest and at cutting can have huge quality and cost implications for the producer

Many are talking about bumper crops of maize and beet grown in 2021. 

The price of fertiliser and feed have become two hot topics on-farm over the last number of months. Well as the saying goes, you can’t have one without the other. 

At this point, it is inevitable that any homegrown forages and cereals will have a higher production cost in 2022.