By Haley Madison Silage is fermented highmoisture fodder

By: Haley & Madison.

• Silage is fermented, high-moisture fodder that can be fed to cows or used as a biofuel feedstock for anaerobic digesters. It is fermented and stored in a process called silaging, and is usually made from grass crops, including corn, sorghum or other cereals, using the entire green plant. • Silage can be made from many field crops, and special terms may be used depending on type.

• You plow the ground then plant the corn. • You have to grow the corn before you actually have corn silage. • You need to fertilize. • You chop the corn with a forage harvester. • Then the truck that its in goes to wherever the silage is needed pack it together and they cover it. • Over time it ferments and becomes silage.

• The plant material is collected, chopped into pieces about 0. 5 in long. Current technology uses mechanical forage harvesters that collect and chop the plant material, and deposit it in trucks or wagons. These forage harvesters can be either tractor-drawn or self-propelled. • Harvesters blow the silage into the wagon. Silage may also be emptied into a bagger, which puts the silage into a large plastic bag that is laid out on the ground.

• Forage Harvester- harvest the corn • Plow- get the ground ready for corn plating • Silage Trucks- takes the corn to wherever its needed • Dump Trucks- to dump the corn • Tractor- pack the silage together • Plastic- to cover the silage

• It is important to have silage because it feeds a lot of your animals on any ordinary farm. • Cows, sheep, horses, and other farm animals eat silage during the winter.

• • • Harvest costs: Combine ($23. 50 per acre) Haul and store (1 month) 6. 5¢ /bu. Drying 20% to 14% (15¢ /bu. ) Storage (per month) (3¢ /bu. )

• Corn is grown all around the world. Most of the corn grown in the United States is grown in the Corn Belt. • The Corn Belt includes the states of Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. • Corn is grown in other countries, too. China, Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, Romania and Africa grow it.

Harvesting corn silage at the right time for best livestock performance requires diligent monitoring of the crop’s moisture content, say forage experts at Pioneer Hi-Bred. 1. Plow the ground or field you are planting the corn in. 2. Plant the corn. 3. Care for the crop until the corn shows some dent on the ear. NOW YOU HAVE CORN SILAGE! 4. It's time to walk fields and find samples to achieve ideal dry matter at harvest. 6. After you chop the corn and get it in the truck, you need to take it to wherever it needs to go. There, you will pack it together and leave it in a pile so it can ferment. 5. Get the chopper and start chopping the crow when it’s ready!

1. 5. Plowing Chop Corn 2. Corn Plating 3/ 4 Care For Corn Look To See If Ready For Harvest 6. Take the corn to where it needs to go to get it packed and ferment! 7. You Have Corn Silage

• Corn silage is used by the farmer and it is sold for money. • Farmers use corn silage to feed their animals. • Corn silage produces more energy per acre than any other crop.

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