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How’s your Silage? Getting the best out of what you’ve got.

Sandwick Community Hall, Orkney, KW16 3JE

How’s your Silage? Getting the best out of what you’ve got.
A practical day looking at the importance of silage analysis: understanding dry matter, intake, nutritional needs and building a diet. How to make best use of home-grown forage and save on inputs. Speakers include Robert Gilchrist, Farm Profit Programme Advisor and livestock consultant, and Steven Wylie of Swartland Farm, Dounby. Free of charge to farmers and land managers Booking is required. Funding for this activity is made available through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union), with partner funding from Quality Meat Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Innovative Farmers and The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation. Event kindly supported by William Shearer 

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