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Welsh dairy farm boosts protein by intercropping maize with legumes

Growing beans and sunflowers in a crop of forage maize has seen a Pembrokeshire dairy farm raise silage crude protein (CP) levels to nearly 14%

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Jonathan Evans.
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Jonathan Evans.

Volatile feed prices prompted the Evans family to explore alternatives for supplying protein in the rations for their growing heifers, and 200-cow pedigree Holstein herd at Berryhill Farm, Newport...

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