Cheshire: Silage secrets and clamp confessions

Good silage isn’t a luxury – it’s one of the most cost-effective ways for you to improve milk output, cut feed bills and protect herd health. Yet many farms are still losing money through avoidable silage losses, poor fermentation and decisions that don’t stack up in the cow or the accounts.

Join Dave Davies of Silage Solutions for a practical, no-nonsense workshop that shows you why producing better silage is often cheaper than producing average or poor silage and why the payback can be huge.

You’ll learn what really delivers results on your farm: more milk from forage, less reliance on bought-in feed, fewer production-limiting diseases and a reduced carbon footprint, all while protecting or improving your margins.

What you’ll get from the workshop:

• A clear understanding of how silage quality directly affects your milk yield, herd health and costs
• Practical ways to increase milk from forage and reduce your reliance on purchased feed
• Guidance on making silage work within your milk-from-grass system
• Real-world strategies for dealing with challenging weather and stressed crops
• Insight into how small, low-cost decisions can deliver big financial returns

You’ll leave with clear, practical actions you can apply straight away to help turn your silage into a profit driver, not a hidden cost.

Light lunch and refreshments will be included, please include any dietary requirements on booking.

Workshop stations

1: Milk from silage – At the feed barrier

2: Silage in a milk-from-grass system – At the clamp

3: When grass gets stressed – In the field

This event is part of the UK Dairy Carbon Network project, which gives you access to practical, farm-tested approaches that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving efficiency and profitability on commercial dairy farms.