Gerry Giggins: Make the most of your precious silage – how to construct the perfect pit

Poorly compacted pits will have excessive loss due to secondary fermentation

‘The advice was to look closely at pit infrastructure and filling techniques'

Gerry Giggins

Coming into land at Dublin Airport after a week spent under the bright skies of the Iberian Peninsula, I was overjoyed to see such rich and exuberant green colours from the window of the plane.

My eyes had become so accustomed to the browns, beiges and grey-greens in Spain and Portugal .