A tractor scoops preserved silage and loads it onto a baling machine, and then packages into roll bale, at Chemusian dairy farm in Nakuru County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Many dairy farmers are ...

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Farmers can expect to pay around €85 for a roll of silage wrap this season, with a bumper crop last year wiping out any overhang of stocks. The €85 a roll price, including VAT and levies, compares ...

A pest-repellent bale wrap that protects plastic against bird and rodent attack is set for launch later this spring. The product, developed by plastic film specialist Rani Plast, could help save ...

Silostop technical adviser Tom Chamberlain, from the UK, who was in Australia this month to speak at the Australian Fodder Industry Association conference, said the wrap was invented about 10 years ...

The government is facing calls to scrap a proposed plastic tax on silage bale wrap that would cost farmers £200/t. In December last year, HMRC published guidance which, for the first time, indicated ...

The addition of silage wrap to the list of products attracting the new £200 a tonne plastic tax set to be introduced at the beginning of April this year has created a storm of protest from farming ...