A treatment to ‘temper’ grains and pulses is now being used to address the above and the problem of feeding poorly milled , dry cereals and beans to beef. Read the full Farmers Guardian article here.
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- Charting your success
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- Cold, dry spring calls for extra care with first cut silage
- Optimising home-grown feeds: better for your pocket and the planet
- High DM forage and home-grown crimp lift milk solids and margins
- Making a proper job of silage in Devon
- Ditching the plastic wrap
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- Very real problems – Very real solutions
- How two farmers trade from combine to cow
- FEED … THE SOIL CROP RUMEN
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- Small steps to tackle hard times ahead
- Top Of the Crops
- Are you Slurry-Wise?
- Finding forage alternatives to concentrate feeds
- More Contractors Straw and Hay Goes Unwrapped
- Crimp for your planet. Crimp for our pocket
- Crimping v Urea Treatment
- Where has all the protein gone?
- Crimped peas and beans cut out all bought-in feed
- Home-grown feeds Seek and Sell cuts out the middleman to keep costs down
- Is your crimper ready for harvest?
- Cereal harvest begins in Gloucestershire on last day of June
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- Pulses grown for greening cut out bought-in protein
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- Crimped cereals help cut out purchased feed
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- A trailer for an epic success
- Chain Reaction
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- Very real problems – Very real solutions
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- Small steps to tackle hard times ahead
- Top Of the Crops
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- Everyone’s A Winner
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- Machinery Matters
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- Top Gear – That Really Packs a Punch!
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- A trailer for an epic success
- 21st century silage feeds Jurassic beef
- Chain Reaction
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- Very real problems – Very real solutions
- Don’t delay harvest in maize thats under stress
- Using beans for finishing cuts two-thirds from costs
- Banishing feed lorries to drive down costs
- FEED … THE SOIL CROP RUMEN
- Small steps to tackle hard times ahead
- Top Of the Crops
- Are you Slurry-Wise?
- Finding forage alternatives to concentrate feeds
- More Contractors Straw and Hay Goes Unwrapped
- Home-grown feeds Seek and Sell cuts out the middleman to keep costs down
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- Making a proper job of silage in Devon
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- No place for waste with this year’s maize silage
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