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Grass Silage
Step 1. Cutting
Step 2. Wilting
Step 3. Harvesting
Step 4. Treating
Step 5. Clamping
Step 6. Feeding
Multi-cut benefits
Maize silage
Step 1. Planning
Step 2. Harvesting
Step 3. Treating
Step 4. Clamping
Step 5. Feeding
About
Downloads
Latest
Contact
FREE SIlage Consultation
November 24, 2025
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
Follow the maize – filling the forage gap

Dry conditions affected both maize and grass growth in 2025. Shropshire farmer Mark Fitton spent a busy autumn getting silage stocks back on track.

Follow the maize – filling the forage gap
September 17, 2025
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
Making the most of maize after drought-hit year

After a drought-hit growing season, North Shropshire dairy farmer Mark Fitton of The Farms near Whitchurch seized the opportunity to harvest his 35ha of forage maize almost a month earlier than normal this year.

Making the most of maize after drought-hit year
August 4, 2025
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
Follow the Maize - Mark Fitton Series

Welcome to Follow the Maize – an series brought to you by Volac, following Shropshire farmers Mark Fitton and Lucy Pye as they grow and manage their maize crop through the 2024-25 season.

Follow the Maize - Mark Fitton Series
July 17, 2025
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
How maize could help make up for this year’s ...

With a mixed bag of grass silage this season, Volac experts around the country share their views on the role that forage maize could play.

How maize could help make up for this year’s grass
May 29, 2025
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
Guidance offered for three common grass silage ...

Livestock farmers who experience common grass silage problems of heating, clamp slippage and mycotoxins, should reassess silage-making techniques.

Guidance offered for three common grass silage concerns
Rhiannon Sully-Newman
November 6, 2019

Don't be put off by maize this harvest

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
November 6, 2019
Don't be put off by maize this harvest

This year's combination of a wet autumn after a kind growing season might put you off growing maize forage in the future. However the key is to learn for next season says Volac Business Manager, Ken Stroud.

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
October 28, 2019

Stop the rot eating into this winter’s silage stocks

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
October 28, 2019
Stop the rot eating into this winter’s silage stocks

Once forages have been sealed in clamps there’s little or nothing that can be done to improve the fermentation quality. But you can minimise wastage and losses that occur from this point forward due to heating.

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
September 27, 2019

Topping off this year’s maize preservation

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
September 27, 2019
Topping off this year’s maize preservation

The upper parts of maize clamps are particularly prone to wastage and losses. After a good growing season, could these and other vulnerable areas be protected better?

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
September 9, 2019

Preserving the milk value of maize

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
September 9, 2019
Preserving the milk value of maize

Want more milk from your maize silage? The microbial processes in maize clamps have a huge impact on its nutritional value. So, understanding them is key.

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
August 30, 2019

Harvest is one-shot opportunity to lock ‘goodness’ into maize silage

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
August 30, 2019
Harvest is one-shot opportunity to lock ‘goodness’ into maize silage

It is easy to underestimate how much milk can come from maize, but it’s also easy to underestimate the losses in its feed value that can occur during storage. Find out what you can do to minimise losses today!

Rosie Wareham
August 21, 2019

Advice from Volac at UK Dairy Day across key issues

Rosie Wareham
August 21, 2019
Advice from Volac at UK Dairy Day across key issues

Improving heifer calf performance, making the most of maize after a good growing season and protecting milk production from late summer grass changes. These three key issues will be tackled by Volac at this year's Dairy Day.

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
July 4, 2019

Planning the second half of your silage season

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
July 4, 2019
Planning the second half of your silage season

Last summer’s drought brought into sharp focus the importance of having enough silage to feed. Ken Stroud, Volac Business Manager, discusses the need to take stock of your grass silage and how to reduce losses this season.

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
July 3, 2019

Research shows benefits, risks and solution for better multi-cut grass

Rhiannon Sully-Newman
July 3, 2019
Research shows benefits, risks and solution for better multi-cut grass

Latest research shows that treating your multi cut silage with a proven silage additive, Ecosyl, results in production of a larger amount of more nutritious and palatable silage.

Rosie Wareham
June 17, 2019

Flexible wholecrop offers quantity and quality option

Rosie Wareham
June 17, 2019
Flexible wholecrop offers quantity and quality option

Wholecrop cereal silage provided a lifeline for many producers facing grass silage shortages with last summer’s drought. So is this flexible forage worth considering again?

Alice Ryan
May 30, 2019

Giving grass a helping hand with an arable approach

Alice Ryan
May 30, 2019
Giving grass a helping hand with an arable approach

As farmers strive for more milk from forage, are there any lessons from our cereal-growing cousins to help get more from our raw material: grass?


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