a silage clamp is a business investment and so the optimum solution should be the lowest capital cost for the anticipated outcome. In other words how do you spend the least on a clamp and still get good silage out of it?

Is it a good idea to use a specialist builder to construct your new silage clamp and how do you decide who to trust?

…rules are there to make sure the silage stored in a clamp doesn’t cause pollution and that’s a good thing, ……in essence the rules are there to make sure someone has thought about the clamps and designed a compliant structure.

what’s the best concrete for a silage clamp and what’s the difference between good concrete and bad concrete when not comes to silage storage?

So why do most silage clamps have floors that are not level? The reason often quoted is “so the effluent can run out” but this is not really the whole story.

Running out a silage clamp space is problem that most of us have faced, be it a bumper year or expansion in the enterprise. If you didn’t stick to the old adage “build it twice as big as you want and it will be half as big as you need” when it was constructed, there will come a time when you need to consider more clamp capacity.

Concrete silage clamp floors are part of the landscape, it’s what we have always done, but is there a better way? There might be - and there certainly should be -

a silage clamp is a silage clamp – isn’t it……. so what are the differences between the design of a silage clamp for and AD clamp and one for a livestock farmer?

As with all good design, there are few golden rules you need to follow, and in the case of silage clamps, perhaps unsurprisingly, there are some regulations….

– what do the silage effluent regulations mean? These rules give you the tools to calculate the size of tank you need and how it must be built. So let’s start with what size of tank…