Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres ...

Perhaps it is because starch and fiber take up all the oxygen in the room. From different points of time for fiber digestion ...

You can tell that it is time to cut when you see birds attacking maize or sorghum because even the animals won’t reject the silage.” Additionally, cutting pasture at the right stage means the ...

Mr Jos Creemers, a fodder management expert says good quality silage comes from maize. “We are advising farmers to consider planting maize for silage. Compared to nappier grass, boma Rhodes or ...

OPINION: Few things are more stressful for dairy farmers than running out of feed when cows need it most. Securing enough ...

Crops with optimum sulphur perform better overall, he says, with increased dry matter (DM) yield, protein content and digestibility when fed as silage. Maize plants deficient in sulphur have a ...

Recent market trends indicate prices at the farm gate have soared to Sh4,000 per bag from Sh2,500 in September 2024, a stark ...