Proven on the continent and now available to UK farmers, this 40 micron clear film is spread on top of your clamped feed, then covered with conventional black plastic and weighted down in the usual way.
Costed at just 10p a sq metre the 1200t clamp shown here cost just £60 to protect. And as the pictures show there was no spoilage at all on top and at the shoulders where you would normally expect to see some blackening.
The secret is, as all farmers know, that an air-tight clamp is a safe clamp. An anaerobic fermentation is essential for making good silages; it is this fermentation process that uses up the oxygen in the clamp sucking the ClampFilm™ into the surface of the silage, in other words vacuum-packing the feed. On its own the traditional black plastic is too heavy and oxygen-permeable to achieve a perfect seal.
ClampFilm™ is flexible enough to fill the inevitable depressions on top of the clamp, yet be stout enough to withstand walking on as it is laid.
Farm manager Andrew Guilding, shown bottom right with Kelvin Cave, says he was amazed at how well it performed. “We laid it on quite a windy day, so we thought we’d have problems, but it seemed to get sucked in to the feed as we spread it out off the roll. This is a very big clamp but there has been no waste at all when we opened it: it’s the best investment you could ever make and at such a low cost." Stockland Lovell farm runs some 650 dairy and beef cattle.
ClampFilm™ will be available in 50m rolls at widths of 7m, 12m and 16m. Order yours today!
No spoilage here |
