One of the pits (the smallest) is the fairly common indoor pit with a round roof with leantos each side (only 3bay also), going forward I'll probably end up using that for stock, and put a slatted tank in front of it. Its an utter waste having a roof over the silage now! I'll make up the difference by a mix of more bales, extending the other 2 pits (probably with earth banks to keep costs down), and then better grassland management and road infrastructure to extend the grazing season (actually that final point would be the top priority!)
But yeh, I'll probably aim to do have 2 or possibly 3 1st cuts next year to take the pressure off, and cut the fields that are ready at the right time. Weather is the obviously skeleton in the closet to my ideal plans ha, Lobbing it all in in the last weekend of May this year turned out to be the luckiest break we got all year!
In terms of a diet feeder, I've way more important things to spend capital on over the next few years, infact I think I'd be sooner going down a totally extensive spring milking only route than diet feeders etc etc.