Automated silage clamp sheeting - fantasy or future?
a machine that sheets the whole silage clamp, weighs the covers down and can also do the whole thing in reverse to open up for feeding
Automated silage feeding robots - science fiction or the future?
If you’re not tempted to self feed cows, what other options are there to feed housed diary cows that don’t include a feeder wagon, tractor and loader that can still free up some time?
Can you build your own silage clamps?
Is it a good idea to use a specialist builder to construct your new silage clamp and how do you decide who to trust?
Who should design a silage clamp?
…rules are there to make sure the silage stored in a clamp doesn’t cause pollution and that’s a good thing, ……in essence the rules are there to make sure someone has thought about the clamps and designed a compliant structure.
What is the best concrete for a silage clamp?
what’s the best concrete for a silage clamp and what’s the difference between good concrete and bad concrete when not comes to silage storage?
Should a silage clamp have a roof?
the answer to the question “should your silage clamp have a roof” is - only if its raining! …... if you're going to be stuck with either a fibre cement roof or a clear view of the heavens - which one are you going to choose?
Designing silage clamps for year round feeding
how do you design silage clamps for cows housed 365 days a year and is there any difference to a traditional winter fed clamp design?
What is the ideal width for a silage clamp?
The chosen width of the clamp is super critical in design process. For any given storage size, the width of the clamp is the real dictator in the design layout.
Silage Clamps and Big Tractors
Back in the day a tractors all up weight was unlikely to come anywhere near to the clamp limits but today it’s extremely likely to overload the clamp walls.
Aerobic instability in silage and what you can do to control it.
Aerobic stability is the one single area where most farmers can reduce the losses and improve the physical and financial performance of their forage based enterprise. And just to grab your attention – if you get this bit wrong, you can lose 40% of the feed value of your silage!
Silage clamp floor falls
So why do most silage clamps have floors that are not level? The reason often quoted is “so the effluent can run out” but this is not really the whole story.
Is it possible to make silage clamp walls higher?
Running out a silage clamp space is problem that most of us have faced, be it a bumper year or expansion in the enterprise. If you didn’t stick to the old adage “build it twice as big as you want and it will be half as big as you need” when it was constructed, there will come a time when you need to consider more clamp capacity.
The value of dividing walls
Introducing a dividing wall into your silage clamp might just be one of the better investment paybacks any farm can make.
What’s the best silage clamp floor?
Concrete silage clamp floors are part of the landscape, it’s what we have always done, but is there a better way? There might be - and there certainly should be -
Planning for more silage storage
The best way to build extra storage silage space is to plan for it at the very beginning, that way you might just save yourself a deal of stress and headache, along with a significant amount of money.
What’s the difference between Farm and AD silage clamps
a silage clamp is a silage clamp – isn’t it……. so what are the differences between the design of a silage clamp for and AD clamp and one for a livestock farmer?
Silage clamp concrete floor joints
As with all good design, there are few golden rules you need to follow, and in the case of silage clamps, perhaps unsurprisingly, there are some regulations….
Effluent Tanks - what you need to know
– what do the silage effluent regulations mean? These rules give you the tools to calculate the size of tank you need and how it must be built. So let’s start with what size of tank…
Where to build a silage clamp
The theory of silage clamp construction - needs to be applied to the real world. That means real sites on real farms and usually it means that the site isn’t level….. So how do you build a silage clamp on a sloping site?
Silage Clamp Drains
The current SSAFO regulations in the UK state that the clamp must have a catchment or containment drain around the outside of the walls….