Although current trade is relatively positive for the livestock and dairy sectors, the increasing cost of concentrates can quickly wipe out hard-earned profits. So reason enough, then, to make the best quality silage possible. For a Cumbrian farming family, this means keeping the forage harvesting operation in house, as Mervyn Bailey finds out
Cumbrian dairy farm runs its own self-propelled forager:
Although current trade is relatively positive for the livestock and dairy sectors, the increasing cost of concentrates can quickly wipe out hard-earned profits. So reason enough, then, to make the best quality silage possible. For a Cumbrian farming family, this means keeping the forage harvesting operation in house, as Mervyn Bailey finds out
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Mervyn Bailey
