Silage in a sentence

Winter diets are based on high digestibility 4-cut grass silage harvested with his own silage wagon.

The yield of digestible nutrients of properly managed sorghum is around 92% of corn silage, and the feeding value is estimated at around 85% of corn silage.

The recent death of Wisconsin farmers in a silage silo is a heartbreaking reminder of the importance of silage safety.

A spokesperson for the Bryn Group told WalesOnline: "The cows eat a lot of silage, which we grow on our farm, and produce a large amount of slurry, which we process on-site along with food waste from across Caerphilly in our anaerobic digester.

He added: “We are asking all farmers and contractors, before the silage season starts, to complete the dedicated ‘harvesting checklist’ in the new Farm Risk Assessment document to help identify any necessary improvements.

Later they visited the home of the late Madzibaba Silage (real name Crispen Kanerusine) where they also met the family elders and apologised.

A lot of silage was made in September, which is variable, but some surprisingly good forage was made in the autumn.

Maize silage crops unwanted by dairy farmers were also taken through for grain, leading to an oversupply in the North Island, compounded by a shortage of storage facilities.

One challenge with new crop corn silage is lower kernel digestibility.

Prior to this certification, dairy could be sold as “grass fed” whether the cows ate solely grass or received silage, hay or even grains during certain times.

Sterry had helped farmers decide whether to use the hail-damaged corn for silage, whether to disk it down, or whether to let it keep growing to produce whatever crop it might be capable of producing.

That’s before factoring in all the fungicide and other chemical sprays needed for corn silage, but not for sorghum or sorghum/sudangrass hybrids.

There was notable success for the group in the silage competition.

This releases additional sugars from fructans unavailable in conventional silage additives.

Corn for silage is chopped — stock and all — and either packed into piles or put into silos.

During silage fermentation, the nitrate concentration usually decreases by one-third to one-half, thus you should sample the forage after the ensiling process is complete.

Mr Somerville’s father converted two existing buildings into deer barns and he had one covered yard with a silage bunker for deer, while Bruce Allan, who farms deer near Gore, has built two new ones.

The milkmen claimed that they are already running short of the silage, hay, and on top of that, have not got the supply of fodder from the last four days.

This includes general farm machinery, trailers and silage equipment.

According to Penn State Extension, farmers may also harvest cover crops by grazing, for hay or for silage, haylage or baleage after Sept. 1. This will allow farmers to salvage some crops for feed.