All of our team understand that harvesting our clients grass at the right time in the correct way can have a large effect on both their profitability and our success each year. This starts at the point of mowing where cutting heights are discussed relating crop offtake to crop regrowth. Maximising silage quality is our key objective. By producing high quality silage, supplementary feed and additional concentrates may be reduced without adversely affecting milk yields, or daily live weigh gains of your livestock, potentially improving our customers’ profitability*. The silage we have a direct involvement in producing will feed livestock over the winter months and should not be taken for granted. For greater cow intakes and feed conversions, highly palatable silage needs to be made. Not only do we bring our machinery onto your farm, we also bring our expertise and knowledge. We can offer advice on silage making operations, additives and techniques in order to improve silage making.
Pete and Rich are in contact with their operators and clients throughout the silage making process to make sure crops are harvested in the best conditions. If it needs tedding we will, but unnecessary operations are avoided as this not only costs clients both in terms of contractor charges, but the grass may wilt too much and may have a small increase in soil or manure contamination within the silage.
Each farm, where necessary can have a tailor made service for their silage. High capacity and efficient machinery is used to ensure that all work can be covered even on poor seasons with weather restraints. With modern up to date machinery and a winter maintenance programme on all equipment, we aim to have minimal downtime and high work rates. This is bolstered by our trained operators and their drive to keep machinery working at its optimum.
During harvesting, loads are counted at the forager and the clamp for a clear estimate of both field yields and total tonnage within the clamp.