Stacking Safely

Stacking Safely

3 Feb 2020 | Fact Sheets, Fodder Care, Media releases

Media Release – 3 February 2020 Loading, unloading and stacking hay is almost second nature for those in the fodder industry. For some, it’s a daily task and often completed without consideration of the risks. But complacency in the workplace can lead to...

Fodder Contracts

24 May 2018 | Fact Sheets, Fodder Care

Fodder Contracts In the interests of assisting AFIA members to manage potential contracts for the supply/purchase of fodder/fodder products, AFIA has developed a “Guide to taking out fodder contracts” and a sample “Contract to supply fodder”. We recommend using the...

Improving Silage Additive Coverage

25 Sep 2015 | Fodder Care

Frank Mickan Fodder Conservation and Pasture Specialist DEPI, Ellinbank Centre Silage additives, if applied at the appropriate rates and in the right conditions will generally result in silages with reduced losses of nutritive value and dry matter than untreated...

Precision Ag and the fodder industry

25 Nov 2014 | Fact Sheets, Fodder Care

Darren Keating, AFIA Executive Officer In recent years the use of precision Ag technology in Australia’s broad acre agriculture sector has been steadily increasing. This has led to technology including GPS guided machinery, remote sensors and variable rate application...

Prevent injuries or worse from silage avalanches

3 Oct 2014 | Fodder Care

By Ruthie Bolsen and Dr Keith Bolsen, Keith Bolsen & Associates, Austin, Texas Silage avalanches are real and there is no way to predict when and where they will occur. It only takes a fraction of a second for part of a silage feedout face to silently break off...

Planning for Spring Silage

2 Oct 2014 | Fodder Care

Neil Griffiths Technical Specialist Pasture Production NSW DPI Making spring silage will depend on seasonal conditions that enable a genuine surplus of forage to grow or a major problem in cropping areas such as drought, late frost or hail where silage may be a...