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Czech-built silage bagger helps Somerset business
0Cannington Enterprises is built around efficiency. The family-run business operates a major biogas set-up, with three digesters and three secondary tanks. These are fed on a mix of crops and food waste, and the company harvests more than 2,200ha each year – 1,600ha of maize and the rest made up of hybrid rye, winter barley and oats. That amount of silage requires significant clamp space, something that is not available to the business, so it had previously used a local contractor with its own bagging machine. “Bagging makes a lot of sense,” explains farm manager James Owen. “When conditions are…