{"id":291144,"date":"2018-08-07T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T10:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=291144"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T10:53:13","slug":"there-is-a-culture-of-excess-silage-waste-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/there-is-a-culture-of-excess-silage-waste-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"‘There is a culture of excess silage waste in Ireland’"},"content":{"rendered":"
There is a culture of excess silage waste in Ireland, with somewhere in the region of 25%<\/strong> of feed made each year wasted through visible and invisible losses on some farms, an animal nutritionist has warned.<\/p>\n Last Thursday night (August 2),\u00a0Gerry Giggins from Nutrition Link told a LacPatrick Dairies fodder workshop meeting that some silage samples coming back are throwing up “serious quality issues<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n Heavy rain towards the latter end of last year and into the early part of 2018 has led to\u00a0quality concerns arising from silage samples taken from some heavier farms, he added.<\/p>\n While there has been some great silage made this year, quality issues have also been evident. These issues varied from silage being too wet or to dry, or the decision being taken to harvest stale grass that couldn’t be grazed in the spring, Giggins added.<\/p>\n Speaking at the meeting,\u00a0Giggins said: “The results are showing that there is a lot of ash content or soil contamination in silage that has been made this year. This is because fields were badly poached<\/strong> last year and earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n . @gerry_giggins<\/a> from Nutrition Link says lots of issues coming back from silage sampling.<\/p>\n First cuts were too wet or too dry. Lots of issues with soil contamination in silage after fields were badly poached last year and earlier this year. pic.twitter.com\/FiLza09C1j<\/a><\/p>\n\n