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Summary Of: Silage

Silage can be made from many other field crops... Silage must be made from plant material with a suitable moisture content... Harvesters blow the silage into the wagon via a chute at the rear or side of the machine... Silage may also be emptied into a bagger... which puts the silage into a large plastic bag that is laid out on the ground... silage is placed in large heaps on the ground and rolled by... some silage is inoculated with specific microorganisms to speed fermentation or improve the resulting silage... Silage inoculants contain one or more strains of... Silage must be firmly packed to minimize the oxygen content... Silage is a useful feedstock for... Here silage can be fed into anaerobic digesters to produce biogas that in turn can be used... grow when air is allowed to reach cured silage can cause toxic organic dust syndrome... The silage itself poses no special danger... Silage is most often fed to dairy cattle... Since silage goes through a fermentation process... The result is that the silage is lower in energy than the original forage...

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