KVERNELAND HEADLAND NEWS
HIGH QUALITY RATION Ration quality is key to live weight gain for Herefordshire beef farmer Tony Raymond, pictured.
“If we can continue to make high quality silage and present it well, our cattle will devour it,” explains Tony Raymond. “This year, we’ve seen stock putting on 1.5kg/day, and it’s all down to a well-presented ration using good quality silage.” At Bower Brook Farm, Eardisley, Tony focusses on producing a range of forages for his 220 beef cattle. Each season, he aims to produce over 2,000 tonnes of silage comprising grass, whole crop barley and maize. The goal is to achieve heifer dead weights of around 320kg and 370kg for steers, all within a 10 to 12-month time frame. When the time came to replace its worn-out horizontal machine, Tony looked at the different options available and settled on a Kverneland Siloking twin auger machine from the TrailedLine 4.0 series, supplied
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