Dairy
Fane Valley Feeds’ technical support manager, Matthew Armstrong, has pointed to the role of Spanish straw in calf diets.
2025 was a good year for straw production following a tough two years prior, but droughts in the UK and SIM have still reduced availability.
Tillage
Increasing numbers of Irish livestock farmers – north and south - now include precision chopped Spanish straw in the diets fed to their cows