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Dairy Talk - Ben Yates: "Silage pits are getting low from the long winter we have endured"

In Somerset, spring is trying to show its face between the rain showers. The warmer weather that we enjoyed recently gave us good growth rates of 34kg of dry matter/hectare per day

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Dairy Talk - Ben Yates: "Silage pits are getting low from the long winter we have endured"

The low yielders have been able to make good use of this grass growth on our lighter, brashier ground, which is a good job as the silage pits are getting low from the long winter that we have endured....

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