It is fermented and stored in a process called ensiling or silaging, and is usually made from grass crops, including maize, sorghum or other cereals, using the entire green plant (not just the grain).
Silage is made either by placing cut green vegetation in a silo, by piling it in a large heap covered with plastic sheet, or by wrapping large bales in plastic film.
Bulk silage is commonly fed to dairy cattle, while baled silage tends to be used for beef cattle, sheep and horses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silage
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:18 (thirteen years ago)
agreed.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:19 (thirteen years ago)
Need human silage now.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blxwbBshXXY
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)
Farmer pinches pennies by feeding chocolate to dairy cows
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:29 (thirteen years ago)
Silage Marner is a fermented, high-moisture novel by George Eliot. Her third novel, it was first published in 1861 by placing cut green vegetation in a silo, by piling it in a large heap covered with plastic sheet, or by wrapping large bales in plastic film. Bulk silage is commonly fed to dairy cattle, while baled silage represents one of Eliot's most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion.
― ledge, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:30 (thirteen years ago)
Mulching is a process of inbred fertilization which employs certain decomposed organic materials - including, but not limited to animal sediment - to blanket an area in which vegetation is desired. The procedure enriches the soil for stimulated plant development while, at the same time, preventing erosion and decreasing the evaporation of moisture from the ground. #groo
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:40 (thirteen years ago)