date:Feb 28, 2014
ost of feeds the main input to pig production, it said.
With regard to hay and silage, it found hay yields fell in 2013 but the area cut doubled and overall production increased by 79 per cent to 143,000 tonnes.
Farmers took advantage of good weather in July to replenish fodder stocks depleted in the spring. The production of silage also increased 11 per cent from 2012 to over 9million tonnes. Again good weather from the middle of the season onwards resulted in a five per cent increase in yie