Successful silage manual
This manual is aimed at a very broad audience - farmers/producers, contractors, advisers, consultants and agribusinesses with a specific interest in silage.
It draws together information from around the world on all aspects of silage relevant to the Australian grazing industries.
Our aim has been to cover "everything you ever needed to know about silage" - from the practical to the scientific.
The following quote from a Gippsland dairy farmer who test-read this manual, says it all - "I have been making large tonnages of silage for 20 years, and learnt much from this. An excellent manual, well done."
The manual is provided for download below as a full document or in sections or the book and DVD can be purchased from the bookshop.
These tools accompany the manual:
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Successful silage manual - full version | 7.7 MB |
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Chapter 1: Silage in the farming system |
896.2 KB |
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Chapter 2: Principles of silage preservation |
944.2 KB |
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Chapter 3: Silage as a pasture management tool |
292.5 KB |
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Chapter 4: Silage from pastures and forage crops |
586.9 KB |
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Chapter 5: Crops and by-products for silage |
471.0 KB |
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Chapter 6: Mowing and wilting pastures and crops |
472.8 KB |
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Chapter 7: Silage additives |
347.5 KB |
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Chapter 8: Harvesting silage |
356.6 KB |
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Chapter 9: Silage storage |
597.0 KB |
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Chapter 10: Feeding silage |
442.7 KB |
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Chapter 11: Assessing the economics of silage production |
438.7 KB |
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Chapter 12: Feed testing - assessing silage quality |
360.1 KB |
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Chapter 13: Feeding silage to dairy cows |
330.7 KB |
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Chapter 14: Feeding silage to beef cattle |
458.4 KB |
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Chapter 15: Feeding silage to sheep |
447.2 KB |