Pit silage saved for a dry time

By Stephen Burns
Updated July 10 2018 - 4:19pm, first published July 4 2018 - 10:30am
Peter Moore, checking on the quality of the round bale silage, made from a mix of cocksfoot and lucerne which was put into the silage pit in 2015. It is being fed to mixed age ewes.
Peter Moore, checking on the quality of the round bale silage, made from a mix of cocksfoot and lucerne which was put into the silage pit in 2015. It is being fed to mixed age ewes.

Silage, as a form of preserving excess pasture growth during a big spring for future dry spells has been a feature of the Moore families operation at “Blink Bonnie”, Tarana for at least the past half century.

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