Silage quality has never been more important - so what can you do about it?

Cost of achieving animal performance is far less when young top quality grass silage is fed, says independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy

Contractor Mark Troy, Knockroe, Bandon & Neilus Lehane, pictured harvesting silage for Laurance Buckley, Begley's Forge, Kilumney, Co Cork. Picture: O'Gorman Photography

A good bit of silage has been cut in the south of the country. Quality from these cuts will be fantastic once they are ensiled properly. 

As we all know, concentrates will be expensive and we need to try and offset this by getting more animal performance from our homegrown forages.