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Silage lessons from 2022: What can farmers learn going forward?

Last season’s heatwave provided some big lessons for making grass silage. So what can we learn from 2022?

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Silage lessons from 2022: What can farmers learn going forward?

Last seasons heatwave provided some big lessons for making grass silage. So what can we learn from 2022? If someone had told you at the start of 2022 that by summer you would be staring at a grass...

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