On Wednesday, the firm said it had concluded trials for the establishment of Super Napier grass at its forage resource centres, as it sought to enhance the accessibility of fodder planting ...

Harvesting maize or sorghum for making silage is ideal when their seeds are soft but not milky when squeezed open. Napier grass, on the other hand, needs to be about a metre high while legumes ...

As the rainy season approaches and farmers prepare for the transition from the dry season, one key area of focus is rangeland ...

Juncao grass is a type of perennial fodder that resembles local napier grass but has softer ... It can also produce nutritious silage within just 48 hours, offering farmers like Ms Ruguru a ...

explains how happy he is now that he has planted a type of forage called super Napier grass, acquired a chaff cutter to aid him in chopping the fodder, and built a cow shed, among many other benefits ...

Daniel Kiptoor, a farmer at Ainabkoi, explains how happy he is now that he has planted a type of forage called super Napier grass, acquired a chaff cutter to aid him in chopping the fodder, and built ...

This year has certainly not been a vintage grass-growing year and there is a very mixed bag of silage saved across and within farms. Some of that silage is wet, some is far too dry, there is also ...

Napier grass for instance, can protect maize crop against this pest. Napier grass is a repellent crop. Stem-borers would lay eggs on Napier grass, but they will not develop to larvae. Planting one ...

The water supply for Nairobi’s five million people — and four million others besides — depends on the Tana river, which flows ...

Earlier this month, a handful of players showed up in Billy Napier’s office and told the Florida coach something had to change. The losses were piling up, the coach was careening toward ...