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Most losses that occur when you make silage are invisible – as high as 40% of the original cut pasture, says DairyNZ.

Quality silage is a stable feed made from quality pasture preserved in the absence of oxygen by quality fermentation to minimise any loss of feeding value, says DairyNZ.

Low milk prices have not only affected farmgate returns in New Zealand, they blew a $44 million hole last financial year in Fonterra's China farm business.

Farmers need to act now if they are to cope with the effects of a predicted drought in Canterbury, Lincoln University experts say.

WHILE MUCH of this season's lamb crop is still in the paddock, thoughts should be turning to protecting next spring's drop, say vets.