Harvesting of grass silage is often as much an important part of spring pasture management, as it is to conserve feed for another point in the season. Whether your aim is to harvest a small area to maintain pasture quality, or harvest a large area for supplementary feed, we have the range of equipment necessary to meet your requirements.

MOWING One Tarrup 9 metre triple mower and grouper, plus a Claas 8550 tractor mounted triple mower-conditioner combination unit mowing 8.2 metres per swath. The flail conditioners enable rapid wilting of grass, reducing the time between mowing and harvesting and thus minimising field losses of silage quality and drymatter yield.

For Lucerne, the John Deere 1365 mower with roller crimper and auto-swather provides the best combination to ensure rapid wilting without losing the leaf of this high quality protein crop. The auto-swather can place two rows (6 metre) side by side to reduce or eliminate further swathing before harvesting.

SPREADING When silage or hay crops need turning to aid the wilting process, the 10 metre wide Lotus tedder gives fast and efficient spreading of your grass.

  SWATHING (Raking) For the forage harvesters, 2 Claas Liner 3000 swathers are available to bring 12.5 metres of grass into a single row and provide efficient utilisation of the forage harvester.

When using the baler or loader-wagon the Claas Liner 880 swathers produce consistent large rows for dense bales and rapid harvesting with the loader-wagon.

HARVESTING GRASS SILAGE High capacity John Deere self-propelled precision chop harvesters - two, 7500I and one 7550I with 3 metre grass pickups provide rapid harvesting of grass silage.

Pioneer? brand Appli-pro inoculant system enables precise application of Pioneer? brand silage inoculants to further enhance fermentation.

Large trailers (25 ? 30 cubic metre) ensure fast efficient transport and are fitted with low ground pressure tyres for soft soil conditions.

Trucks are also available with low ground pressure tyres to aid traction, avoid possible paddock damage and minimise soil compaction. Trucks, or trucks and trailers are available for road transport.

The stack is often the most important part of harvesting and storing silage.

     Large John Deere tractors (175-200hp) tractors weighing over 12 tonnes are specifically set up with buck rakes to compact fresh silage for a quick fermentation, minimising ensiling losses.

Bulk rolls of silage covers can be supplied to cover and protect your silage feedstuff ? providing one piece 12 or 15 metre wide high strength black/white covers. Black-white covers keep light out and reflect heat to preserve your silage. Light weight black/black covers and 18 metre wide black/white covers are available on request.

LOADER-WAGON The two Schuitemaker 135 loader wagons provides a viable alternative for fast efficient harvesting of those smaller precision chopped grass silage jobs. If you have a small area of silage to make into a stack or pit, and / or a short cart from the paddocks to the stack, the loader-wagons are a worthy option to the self propelled forage harvesters. The knife design of the Schuitemaker provides well chopped silage superior to traditional loader wagons.

A stack tractor, silage inoculant and silage covers can also be provided when using the loader-wagon.

ROUND BALING - SILAGE OR HAY The rotor cut baler produces dense bales with or without hard centres. The knives are optional, creating chopped or unchopped silage. Typical bales for silage are 1.2 metre diameter while hay is generally between 1.2 and 1.6 metre diameter.

For silage bales, the Gowell wrapper, combined with our high quality wrap produce well-wrapped bales to exclude air and moisture from harvesting until feed out time. These can be stationary wrapped and stacked or in field. We also have a Fusion Baler Wrapper - combo Baler for firm great bales in all conditions. 

SQUARE BALING -  Claas 3200 producing tight 70 x 120 bales wrapped by our gowell either singly or two at a time.

TUBE WRAPPING - we can tube wrap either our rounds or squares.

Bales can be moved using trucks as required and we can stack your bales using soft grabs to avoid damaging wrapped bales of silage.

Pioneer brand silage inoculant can also be applied to baled silage to improve fermentation.