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A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

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The exchequer secretary to HM Treasury has resisted calls to exempt silage film used in agriculture from the plastics packaging tax. Secretary and Treasury minister, Helen Whately MP warned that an ...

Farmers can expect to pay between €105-125/roll for silage wrap this season, according to plastics importers. Operations and purchasing manager at J Grennan and Sons, Michael Burke, told theFarming ...

Using a “film-on-film” approach to bale wrapping could see farmers getting up to an extra 15 litres of milk from each bale of silage. The yield boost is mainly due to the increased amount of feed ...

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The national collection of used silage wrap for recycling will be canned by Agrecovery midway into next year. After collecting more than 700 tonnes of used silage plastics from farms over the past ...

ACADEMICS are being asked to find ways of preventing unsightly plastic silage wrap littering the Welsh countryside. An estimated 15,000 tonnes of waste plastic is generated each year in Wales as ...

Using a “film-on-film” approach to bale wrapping could see farmers getting up to an extra 15 litres of milk from each bale of silage. The yield boost is mainly due to the increased amount of feed ...