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Successful Silage

The TopFodder 'Successful Silage' manual, developed with core funding from Dairy Australia and NSW Department of Primary Industries, contains detailed information on the basic principles and practicalities in producing silage in Australia, from growing and havesting the parent forage to storing and feeding the silage to dairy cows and other ruminants.

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Contents and introduction
Chapter 1. Silage in the farming system
Chapter 2. Principles of silage preservation
Chapter 3. Silage as a pasture management tool
Chapter 4. Silage from pastures and forage crops
Chapter 5. Crops and by-products for silage
Chapter 6. Mowing and wilting pastures and crops
Chapter 7. Silage additives
Chapter 8. Harvesting silage
Chapter 9. Silage storage
Chapter 10. Feeding silage
Chapter 11. Assessing the economics of silage production
Chapter 12. Feed testing: Assessing silage quality
Chapter 13. Feeding silage to dairy cows

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