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The Krone rake that Bart van Ruiswyk uses during the silage season.

Undera’s Bart van Ruiswyk has been using Krone silage machinery for nearly 25 years Having owned Krone machinery for nearly a quarter of a century, Undera’s Bart van Ruiswyk says he would not have it any other way. Mr van Ruiswyk, who milks between 450 and 500 Friesian and Friesian/Jersey cross cows, explained why Krone was the machinery for him. ‘‘It’s good, well-built, durable machinery and it doesn’t shatter into bits,’’ he said. ‘‘The rake has an electric height control on the rotors which are controlled by in-cab controls and the mowers have hydraulic oats.

‘‘It does a clean cut and raking — you don’t want to leave too much. ‘‘It’s like if you’re mowing the lawn and it leaves half there — you better get a new mower or sharpen the blades.’’ To keep his machinery up-to-standard, Mr van Ruiswyk said he traded it regularly. ‘‘We get rid of our mowers every four years,’’ he said. ‘‘Not so much the tedder because we don’t use that as much.’’

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Mr van Ruiswyk said he would cut between 242ha and 404ha of hay and silage a year, depending on the season. ‘‘We have a lot of silage on hand at the moment. There’s a fair bit of reserve around, which is handy. ‘‘Our normal start is late September/early October because of the heavy ground we have here, but it depends on the weather. ‘‘In the drought years, we did silage in August. You had to or there was nothing left.’’

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Burning-off warning nvironment Protection Authority E Victoria is warning farmers that a momentary mistake when burning-off

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can be costly for the environment and the landholder. EPA north-east region manager Emma Knights said it was important to think twice before throwing anything extra onto the pile when burning-off. ‘‘It can be tempting to add household or farm waste such as silage wrap, chemical containers or old tyres to burn piles just to get rid of them,’’ Ms Knights said. ‘‘These items don’t burn properly and produce large amounts of smoke. ‘‘The environmental impacts of burning the wrong things can be more than just a bit of smoke; you could be looking at toxic air pollution, residue running off into waterways and chemical contamination that persists in the soil.’’ Fallen trees or other natural wood being burned should be as dry as possible and not freshly cut, to keep down the volume of

smoke, and farmers should make sure they have any relevant council or CFA permits. Timber that has been used in a building, furniture or other manufactured product must not be burned. ‘‘In farming areas, it’s the community that suffers if you pollute the air, the soil or local waterways with things that shouldn’t go onto a fire,’’ Ms Knights said. ‘‘Anyone burning-off should also pay attention to the weather, making sure they minimise the impact of smoke on neighbouring properties and have sufficient water ready to extinguish the fire if conditions change or the smoke gets out of hand.’’ EPA officers can issue a fine of close to $8000 for the burning of things like plastics, painted or chemically treated wood, or any kind of industrial waste. ➤ The EPA urges people to report suspected pollution to the EPA on 1300 372 842 or at: www.epa.vic.gov.au

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many cases that has led to quite heavily grazed paddocks, creating a reduction in feed options during the coming months. For this reason, farmers are increasingly looking at cheaper and quicker options for animal feed during winter, making fastgrowing, home-produced feed an increasingly viable option. ‘‘The cheapest form of feed available onfarm is what you grow yourself,’’ PGG Wrightson Seeds sales agronomist Matt Carracher said. ‘‘Essentially, the cost per kilogram is much lower than from buying it in,’’ he said. Home-grown feed is not only cheaper, it also gives farmers the option for multiple grazings during the growing season. For farmers wishing to boost their homegrown feed stocks during winter, a new-tomarket, quick-to-establish annual rye-grass, called Ascend, is set to have a major impact. ‘‘Ascend has been bred specifically for quicker establishment,’’ Mr Carracher said. ‘‘Animals are able to get on to the paddock within six to eight weeks of sowing, and it delivers strong late autumn and early

PGG Wrightson Seeds sales agronomist Matt Carracher: ‘‘The cheapest form of feed available on-farm is what you grow yourself.’’ winter feed — traditionally a time of year when feed can be in short supply.’’ ➤ For more information, visit: www.pggwrightsonseeds.com.au or speak to a PGG Wrightson Seeds’ pasture agronomist on 1800 619 910.

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Consider silage options carefully aking spring silage will M 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 salvage exercise. Choice of silage method will depend on machinery and contractors available and relative cost. While bulk chopped silage may be a cheap option, wrapped bales will always incur the cost of plastic and therefore must be of premium feed quality to be profitable. Early thinking about spring silage should include maintenance of machinery, storage areas and tracks, sourcing plastic, twine or net wrap and inoculants. Growers making early and regular contact with contractors or vice-versa will help reduce problems when everyone is busy. Choice of which paddocks to cut will consider the obvious topography, access and feedout issues with some people preferring to cut convenient paddocks while others will graze close paddocks and cut further away to reduce stock walking. Soil fertility and weed management are major considerations when we start getting into detail on paddock selection and management. Silage removes large amounts of nutrients including nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K) and

Many factors affect how, when and where to make spring silage. sulphur (S) which must be allowed for and monitored using soil tests. It can be a great way to reduce nutrient build-up in effluent disposal areas provided withholding periods are observed to minimise animal health risks. In preparing for spring silage, nitrogen and potassium will need to be managed to ensure good growth and yield as well as feed quality and high quality silage.

Deficiencies will limit yield but excess can also be a problem. If potassium is needed, and it often is if silage or hay is regularly taken from a paddock, then split applications early in spring to allow growth and again after silage harvest to replace nutrients will reduce the risk of luxury uptake. This is where the plant absorbs more K than it needs meaning you lose fertiliser while the silage has

excess K with possible associated feed quality issues. Nitrogen also needs to be applied sensibly. Top-dressing early in spring to ensure good growth is usually essential but excess N can interfere with silage fermentation and nitrate poisoning is a risk. Both are unusual in Australian silage but should be considered. Top-dressing rates for rye-grass will depend on if you take a grazing management priority and harvest at three leaves or want to optimise your yield of high quality silage and harvest at the boot or early head emergence stage of growth. One guide to how much fertiliser should be applied after the grazing prior to silage harvest is to allow for the nutrients removed in the silage, which would be 30 kg N/tonne DM (dry matter) if the silage was 19 per cent crude protein with about 25 kg K/tonne DM. We often underestimate how much N and K is removed in silage and hay. Weed management is also a major consideration in paddock selection, both from a silage quality and weed control perspective. Using silage for weed control is highly effective and becoming more important as increasing herbicide resistance issues affect more farmers. Silage will help reduce weeds in two ways. Early harvest compared to hay means that often the weed seed is not fully developed and also the

silage fermentation process will significantly reduce weed seed viability if there is any mature seed harvested. From a silage quality perspective, grass weeds may not be a big issue but broadleaf weeds can affect silage quality. Another question which sometimes influences paddock selection is disease or insect damage. This especially applies to rust where the general advice is to make a decision early and avoid badly infested crops because the rust on leaves is dead material, which could have a negative affect on fermentation and feed quality similar to any dead matter that is mixed in with silage. Having said that, the winner of the 2010 NSW Hay and Silage Feed Quality Awards was a silage made from a stripe rust-infested wheat crop from Forbes where the decision was made early and the crop cut for silage in the boot stage, testing 11.0 MJME/kg DM and 19 per cent crude protein. Finally, when paddocks for silage are identified, make sure you remove hazards such as irrigation pipes, electric fence posts and pasture harrows and mark rocks or stumps early while you can see them. — Neil Griffiths pasture production technical specialist, NSW DPI

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Rewards are worth the effort ssuming you are after high A quality silage (>9.8 MJ ME/ kg DM), then you will need to

harvest perennial rye-grass/ white clover pastures two to five weeks before normally harvesting hay. This early in the season, the ground may be damp, air temperature cool to warm, and the skies often overcast. Try to harvest at the desired dry matter percentage but if rain is coming, get into it! To harvest high quality silage, where soil types allow, may require extra machinery and some management changes in fodder conservation. The rewards are worth it. Consider such things as working in with neighbours who have machinery that you do not have, using contractors or buying a crucial piece of machinery. Forward planning — machinery serviced, fences cut, holes filled, tracks graded, tree and holes marked, harrows moved out of paddock, plastic seal on site — and communicating with others involved assists greatly.

AM v PM mowing It is true that the plant sugars are highest in the plant by midafternoon. However, I believe that the extra wilting gained by earlier mowing, albeit at a lower sugar content level in the plants, is more than

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The right mowing and wilting processes will produce the best possible silage. offset by the disadvantages of mowing mid-afternoon. A crop cut in the afternoon will be higher in energy (sugars) but will undergo a much shorter wilt before nightfall. These plants with higher moisture content, fuelled by the

dew, will have increased quality losses overnight due to their greater respiration rates. It is also highly possible that an extra day’s wilting may be required to reach the desired dry matter content. Ensiling at lower dry matter

contents than desirable will result in a less favourable fermentation with some loss of quality and reduced palatability. — Frank Mickan senior dairy extension officer (pasture and fodder conservation specialist), Agriculture Victoria

Key aims in mowing silage: ➤ To mow early to ensure high quality silage and plentiful regrowth. ➤ To wilt the crop to the desired dry matter percentage as soon as possible after mowing. ➤ To compact stacks tightly, sealing within one to three days of harvesting preferably. ➤ To bale tightly, sealing within zero to three hours of baling, ideally at the storage site. ➤ Fix holes as soon as possible after being noticed with specific silage tapes. Some key points to remember: ➤ Cutting a crop when sunny will yield a higher quality crop than when shady. ➤ The longer the mown crop is on the ground, greater are the losses of dry matter (DM) and quality (sugars and proteins) due to plant respiration, and increased risk of rain. ➤ The fresher or wetter the material, the more it is ‘living’ and the greater the losses of DM and quality. ➤ The lighter the crop the quicker the wilt. ➤ The lesser the density of the swath after mowing, the faster the wilt. ➤ Crops mown early in the season and without further treatment dry very well on top, to about three to five leaves depth only, in the first 24 to 36 hours. ➤ Dust, mud or manure plus silage equals foul silage (reduced palatability and quality).

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Don’t import weeds with feed s drought conditions prevail A across much of NSW, primary producers are being

warned to take precautions to reduce the risk of weed seed spread. Grains Research and Development Corporation northern crop protection officer Vicki Green said the movement of hay between regions and states had the potential to spread problem weeds. ‘‘Like grain, hay can contain a lot of weed seeds and in the current drought conditions stockfeed is being transported vast distances as producers source whatever they can, from wherever they can,’’ Mrs Green said. ‘‘During dry times I have heard anecdotal reports of hay contaminated with weed seeds affecting different properties more than 500 km apart, resulting in significant infestations of new weeds. ‘‘There is also the chance that these weed seeds will be herbicide-resistant. ‘‘This is a potentially serious problem for agricultural production in general, with negative impacts for both cropping and pasture.’’ Mrs Green said the issue of monitoring and managing new weed infestations was often compounded when it rained by the fact landholders were then focused on drought recovery

quarantine paddock — this will limit the area where weed seeds are dispersed for easier monitoring and management after rain. Keep stock in-paddock after feeding for sufficient time for them to empty out. This paddock needs to be monitored after rain events for weed germination. ➤ Feed away from watercourses to reduce risk of weed spread. ➤ If transporting hay or grain, clean down vehicles after delivery in a designated area to reduce risk of spread and make future monitoring and management easier. ➤ Monitor hay and grain storage areas, paddocks and roadways for new weeds. ➤ Post-rain, identify or seek assistance to identify any new weeds to ensure the selection of appropriate control strategies.

Landholders are being advised to take precautions to reduce weed spread if buying in hay or grain to feed livestock. practices, such as seeding, rather than weed control. To minimise the potential for weed seed spread through the movement of hay and grain as stockfeed, the GRDC advises landholders to follow the NSW DPI Grains Farm Biosecurity Guidelines and take the following precautions:

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ith high quality silage being the W crucial component of an effective livestock feeding program, leading farm • Up to 40% more productive per day • Unparalleled traction, comfort and control • New CommandPlus cab • Unique all-round suspension • 6.6-litre six-cylinder engine with max 235hp (175kW) and 950Nm

machinery manufacturer Kuhn’s latest addition to the Australian market promises to play a significant role. The Kuhn Profile 24.2 DL double-auger mixer wagon is brand new to Australia — and with it comes some special features designed to transform the speed and efficiency of any feed delivery system. Kuhn product specialist Tom de Greenlaw said nutrition and costs were two of the most important considerations when it came to silage potential. ‘‘Nutrition, because a top-quality product is going to help your animals reach their full potential, and cost, because time-efficiency is such a major issue for most farms today,’’ Mr Greenlaw said.

‘‘A good mixer will help you to achieve both those goals, and that’s why this step in the process is so important to get right.’’ Feeding systems employing a tractor and bucket, a silage cart, or even some other types of mixer wagons can be timeconsuming to use, and uneven in their feed delivery capabilities. These less-than-optimal methods for feed delivery can result in issues like aerobic spoilage, which can lead to nutrient loss, and feed wastage, resulting from patchy distribution. Kuhn’s Profile 24.2 DL mixer wagon can eliminate both issues, delivering livestock feed quickly and efficiently, minimising wastage via optimal distribution. ➤ For more information, visit: www.kuhn.com.au

IRWIN STOCKFEEDS High Performance Feed for High Performance Animals Specialising in quality bulk stock feeds for a range of animals including dairy & beef cattle, sheep, goats and horses • Custom and standard rations • Pelletised products • Bulk meals • Dairy feeds • Prime calf mixes

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Stockfeeds to suit every need rwin Stockfeeds has been Istockfeed providing high quality to northern Victorian farmers for the past two years and has established a strong footprint in the Goulburn Valley, Murray Valley and Southern Riverina. Based in Kyabram, the business offers high performance ruminant grain mixes, protein meals and pellets. The highest quality ingredients

are used to produce the highest quality feed, and products are manufactured under quality assured conditions because Irwin Stockfeeds is a feed-safe accredited company. The products cater for seasonal variation from high energy products in spring to high protein products during the summer months. On-farm consultations allow representatives to work together

with the client to meet daily feed requirements in the most costeffective manner. Ongoing support is maintained to maximise production. With improved feed conversion efficiency, increased pasture utilisation and total feed intake, clients can expect results reflected in increased weight gains and milk production. As a company, Irwin Stockfeeds prides itself on its customer

service and relationships, prompt delivery, reliability and wealth of knowledge. Expert nutritional and agronomy advice is provided at no cost to customers, while a whole-farm approach to animal health and production is undertaken. As well as dairy feed, Irwin Stockfeeds has products for beef finishing programs, maintaining ewes and lambs during lactation,

lamb finisher pellets, horses, pigs, chickens, goats and alpacas. No job is too big or too small — whether farmers are after bagged products or bulk, Irwin Stockfeeds says it has the stockfeed to match. ➤ For more information, phone Irwin Stockfeeds northern Victorian sales and nutrition representatives Sarah Walker on 0437 544 752 or Shane Doherty on 0417 500 344.

Making a weighty job easier for clients hepparton-based business, Country S Scale & Equipment, has been in operation for more than 50 years.

Owned and operated by the Hardy family since 2001, the business continues to provide northern Victoria and southern NSW with specialised weighing equipment and service. Supplying quality weighing equipment and professional service to a wide range of industry sectors — including agricultural, industrial, retail and health care sectors — is the core of what the company does. From packaged products, process control, retail weighing and labelling, all the way up to bulk raw materials, Country Scale & Equipment has the scale and weighing solutions to keep your business up to and above quality standards. Country Scale & Equipment is licensed to test and verify ‘ legal’ for trade weighing equipment, with the team of technicians nationally recognised to carry out the work

under the National Measurement Institute licence SL-0157. As well as this, equipment can be serviced on-site or in the workshop. Country Scale & Equipment can also supply and install complete weighbridges. As well as doing all the hard work setting up a new weighbridge, the company can be relied on for follow-up service and support for new and existing weighbridges. The service fleet includes two test trucks, allowing the service team to independently service, repair, calibrate, test and verify weighbridges up to 80 000 kg capacity. Looking for data-management software to eliminate handwritten and potentially inaccurate transactions? Country Scale & Equipment can help you find a solution to streamline your processes. ➤ For more information, visit: www.countryscale.com.au or phone 5821 5000 or Tristan Hardy on 0417 337 806.

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The 80110C is very easy to use, with all operations run hydraulically and controlled from the tractor cab. • 11m working width • Maintenance Free ProLine gearbox • Hydraulic adjustment for border tedding by moving the right outer arm • 10mm strong tines with 80mm coil diameter • Fast adjustment of spreading angle without the use of tools

Heavy duty two-rotor rakes designed for the toughest conditions. Featuring the Hydro axle allowing a transport height of less than 4.0m, even without detaching the tine arms. • • TerraLink Quattro, ProLine oilbath gearbox • Hydraulically adjustable working width • Active wheel steering with 80º turning angle for easy manoeuvrability

Echuca CIH Sales & Service 43 Sturt Sreet, Echuca VIC 3564, Australia P: +61 3 5482 1733

John Sanderson Machinery 36/34-38 Industrial Cres, Nagambie VIC 3608, Australia P: +61 3 5794 2272

Cobram Farm Equipment 3687 Murray Valley Hwy, Cobram VIC 3644, Australia P: +61 3 5872 1722

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