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| | G4590 Corn Silage, MU Extension |
 | | Corn silage is a popular forage for ruminant animals because it is high in energy and digestibility and is easily adapted to mechanization from the stand-crop to time of feeding. | | | Corn to be used for silage may be planted at a rate of 2,000 to 3,000 more stalks per acre than corn to be harvested for grain. | | | A 100-bushel corn crop harvested as silage removes more than twice as much nitrogen, three times as much phosphorus and 10 times as much potassium as when the crop is harvested for grain. |
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http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/crops/g04590.htm
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| | G2061 Corn Silage for Beef Cattle, MU Extension |
| | Harvesting corn as silage furnishes 50 to 60 percent more nutrients per acre for beef cattle than harvesting the grain alone, an important consideration for a cattle feeding enterprise that is tied closely to the farm feed supply. | | | The bushels of grain in a ton of corn silage vary with the yield of grain per acre, the percent moisture of the silage, and other variables. | | | Silage is kept fresh and spoilage prevented on the feeding surface in upright silos if 2 inches of silage is removed daily in winter or 3 inches in summer. |
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http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/ansci/g02061.htm
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| | AGR-173: Baling Forage Crops for Silage |
| | Round bale silage (or balage) is the product of cutting forage crops with conventional hay harvest equipment, allowing the forage to wilt to between 40 and 60 percent dry matter, baling the forage into tight bales, and quickly wrapping the bales in plastic so that oxygen is excluded. | | | Traditional bale spears can be used to move round bales of silage, but have the disadvantage of puncturing the plastic if the bale is moved after wrapping. | | | Significant increases in bale temperature are also associated with excessive delay between baling and bagging of silage bales. |
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http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/agr/agr173/agr173.htm
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| | silage - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about silage |
| | Silage is a fodder made of grass, corn, sunflowers, or other leafy material, which is preserved through fermentation in an airtight silo. | | | A common winter feed for livestock, unlike hay silage can be harvested when ready, in almost all weather conditions. | | | Preparing natural materials for the production of silage. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/silage
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| | Silage production Australia |
| | SMITH R.L. and BOLSEN K.K. (1985) Evaluation of grain sorghum as a silage crop. | | | With sorghum silage however, the data in Table 5 indicate that a lower proportion (43%) of the grain may be damaged during harvesting, and that the utilisation of the whole grain fraction (digestibility 0.828) may not be as high as that observed in maize. | | | Nevertheless grain sorghum provides farmers with the flexibility to harvest the crop for either silage or grain. |
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http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/AGRICULT/AGp/agpc/doc/silage/kaiserpaper/kaisersilage.htm
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| | Silage Harvesting, Storing, and Feeding |
| | The optimal time to harvest corn silage is when the grain is denting and the milkline has moved 1/2 to 2/3 of the way down the kernel (Table 1). | | | Guidelines for harvesting and managing forages harvested as silage. | | | Research and experiences by cattlemen using round-bale silage indicate it is important to wilt forages such as bermudagrass to 30 to 40% dry matter before baling. |
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http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ag180
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| | Corn Silage Management |
| | Efficient utilization of silage by livestock depends on the stage of maturity at which the crop is harvested. | | | Some of the mechanical silage processors are installed on the field chopper and some are located at the storage site, where the corn silage may be rolled as it is unloaded for feeding. | | | The hybrid used for corn silage should be of the proper maturity for the area in which it is grown. |
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http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/ansci/dairy/as1253w.htm
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| | Determining a Value For Silage Crops |
| | A suggestion is to compare them with either hay-crop silages or corn silage depending upon the stage of maturity when the small grain silage was harvested. | | | Since silages may contain 50 to 70% moisture, their amount of actual feed or dry matter varies greatly and should be taken into account. | | | Silage yield obtained at mid-point of the corn yield per acre range in column 1. |
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http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/dairy/forage/silgcrop.htm
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| | Illini DairyNet: Paper Display: Positioning Corn Silage in Dairy... |
| | Small grain silage yields were reduced due to winter kill, delayed harvest due to moisture, and harvested for grain. | | | Courser corn silage contributes to the rumen forage mat and cud chewing characteristics. | | | Corn silage may be the "in" forage crop this year on many dairy farms. |
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http://www.traill.uiuc.edu/dairynet/paperDisplay.cfm?Type=Both&ContentID=157
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| | Corn Germplasms for Silage Uses |
| | Whole plant corn silage is made by allowing the plant to mature before ensiling, and its feed value equals that of field corn with similar ear-stalk ratios. | | | Effect of stage of maturity, corn hybrid type, and population on corn silage moisture and quality. | | | Corn silage is primarily an energy supplying feed, and its nutritive value is related to digestibility and factors that affect digestibility. |
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http://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/AAdvice/1995/A004.html
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| | Silage Fermentation and Preservation |
| | The goal of producers should be to harvest corn and sorghum for silage at the proper growth stage or at physiological maturity when plant moisture content is ideal for silage. | | | Materials such as cereal grains, molasses, dry forages, limestone, urea and anhydrous ammonia are examples of nutrient additions to silage. | | | Formic acid is added to hay crop silages at 0.45 percent of the wet weight or 2.25 percent of the dry matter weight. |
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http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/ansci/dairy/as1254w.htm
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| | Silage Additives, AGF-018-92 |
| | Addition of grain to corn silage is not useful, but adding it to hay crop silage has two benefits. | | | Corn and hay crops (legumes, grasses, and legume-grass mixtures) are ensiled frequently in the midwest. | | | Ammoniating hay crop silage does not increase its CP content greatly because hay crop silages generally have relatively high concentrations of CP and the amount of ammonia added is low (2-4 lbs/ton). |
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http://ohioline.osu.edu/agf-fact/0018.html
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| | silage |
| | The crop most used for silage is corn; others are sorghum, sunflowers, legumes, and grass. | | | Silage replaces or supplements hay for cattle, horses, and sheep. | | | See publications of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0845216.html
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| | Harvesting Hay and Silage |
| | Silage is made by fermentation at moisture levels between 40 and 85 percent. | | | Silage stored at a 40 to 60 percent moisture level is called haylage. | | | Wilted silage has a moisture level of 60 to 75 percent. |
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http://www.mda.state.mn.us/crp/harvest.htm
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| | Illini DairyNet: Paper Display: Selecting Corn Silage... |
| | Illinois corn silage harvested in the fall of 1999 varied from 14 to 58 percent starch. | | | The bad news is corn silage is not corn silage is not corn silage. | | | Dairy managers are deciding which corn silage varieties and types to purchase for their 2000 forage needs. |
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http://www.traill.uiuc.edu/dairynet/paperDisplay.cfm?Type=currentTopic&ContentID=577
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| | Silage |
| | We offer to design a customised silage plant for your need and production capacity and will be able to assist you all the way from design to the plant is ready for production of silage. | | | Improved growth, pelt quality, reproduction and health status of animals, when silage is added to feed mixtures - documented results for feeding of pigs and fur animals. | | | Not only are the investments required for setting-up such production far less than for fish meal but the quality of the resulting animal feed products is much better in nutritional value and there are no pollution of the environment connected with this kind of production. |
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http://www.larell.dk/Silage.htm
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| | Fish silage for feeding livestock |
| | When the same type of silage replaced barley in diets for ewes prior to weaning, there was an improvement in digestibility and a reduction in feed conversion. | | | The fish silage was then formed into blocks in order to have solid feeding material for sheep, goats, horses and camels. | | | It was concluded that, on a dry-matter basis, silage could replace 75 percent of the fish-meal and that other protein-containing materials, such as small fish, crabs, silkworms and animal offal, might be similarly processed for use as animal feed. |
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http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/documents/WAR/war/V4440B/v4440b0d.htm
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| | Bunker Silage Surface Spoilage |
| | Besides harvesting the silage at the proper stage of maturity and moisture content, he put special emphasis on timely and adequate packing and then promptly covering the silo with plastic and weighting down the plastic with tires after filling. | | | I see too many corn silage and haylage bunker silos in Utah and the surrounding states that are left uncovered and have, especially in the case of corn silage, a 5 to 6-inch covering of black spoilage. | | | Holstein heifers and steers fed the covered or uncovered alfalfa silages consumed an average of 12% less dry matter and gained an average of 42% less on the uncovered silage. |
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http://extension.usu.edu/files/agpubs/bunksilo.htm
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| | A REVIEW ON SILAGE ADDITIVES AND ENZYMES |
| | Improvements in silage fermentation and decreases in fiber content appear more pronounced in immature grasses than mature grasses where hydrolysis of the cell wall would be more difficult due to increased lignification. | | | Ammonia has been used to treat corn silage, small cereal grain silage and high moisture corn with varying degrees of success. | | | Spraying enzymes on the silage has increased the release of residual sugars and rate of NDF digestion. |
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http://ag.udel.edu/anfs/faculty/kung/articles/a_review_on_silage_additives_and.htm
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| | What's Corn Silage Worth? |
| | For buyers, feed value is likely to be the most important consideration in sizing up a silage crop. | | | On the flip side, sellers also need to consider the potential drawbacks of marketing the crop as silage rather than as dry corn. | | | The starting point is a base price that takes into account production costs like seed, fertilizer, agronomic practices and harvesting. |
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http://hayandforage.com/mag/farming_whats_corn_silage
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| | pushover silage feeder |
| | Feed Silage fast with this new silage feeding machine. | | | Can be used to feed silage in side passage or centre passage sheds. | | | Zufuhrsilage fastet mit der neuen Silage, die Machine---Thedrücken einzieht. |
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http://www.silagefeeder.com
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| | silage |
| | They had enough ska and punk tastes to keep the skaters happy. | | | It turns out the other members quit because of these factors. | | | They should drop their label and reunite for one last Silage joint... |
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http://www.geocities.com/tiredofsteam/silage.html
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