Forage, corn fodder, or sorghum preserved by fermentation that produces acids similar to the acids that are used to make pickled foods for human consumption.

Grass or other crops that have been cut, allowed to wilt but not completely dry out, and are then preserved in plastic wrapping or in a large mound or pit (called a clamp) from which all air is excluded. Silage is fed to livestock through the winter when fresh grass is not available. See our Stock and Crops pages for more details.

Fodder of higher moisture content than hay stored in airtight structure.

green fodder preserved by excluding air from the storage site.

Green forage, such as grass or clover, or fodder, such as field corn or sorghum, that is chopped into a silo, where it is packed or compressed to exclude air and undergoes an acid fermentation (lactic and acetic acids) that retards spoilage.

Forage or fodder that is usually chopped, then stored and allowed to ferment until it reaches an acidic level that preserves the silage.

(animal science) A crop that has been preserved in a moist, succulent condition by partial fermentation in a tight container (silo) above or below ground. The chief crops stored in this way are corn (the whole plant), sorghum, and various legumes and grasses. The main use of silage is in cattle feed.

fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo

Aerial portion of living plants harvested, chopped and compacted into a silo as a means of preserving livestock feeds dating from Egyptian times.

Green forage converted to a succulent feed of 30%-40% dry matter for sheep by storing without air (as in silo or air-tight bags).

A crop, such as corn and sorghum or other green crops with sufficient moisture, that has been preserved by partial fermentation in a silo, pit, stack, plastic bag or wrap for animal feed. Usually chopped. Often called "hay crop silage" or "haylage" when made from forage crops such as hay or alfalfa. Also referred to as ensilage and baleage.

A feed prepared by chopping green forage (e.g. grass, legumes, field corn) and placing the material in a structure or container designed to exclude air. The material then undergoes fermentation, retarding spoilage. Silage has a water content of between 60 and 80%.

Method of storing fodder for winter feed, without drying

Silage is grass which is mown wilted chopped and ensiled in a clamp where anerobic fermentation takes place. Thus most of the nutrients are maintained in the silage.

Fodder (livestock feed) prepared by storing and fermenting green forage plants in a silo.

A mixture of grasses and grains that has been stored in a silo.

Grass or maize harvested and stored under plastic for winter cattle feed

a mixture of raw materials such as field corn, sorghum, grass, or clover that is converted into winter feed for livestock

Pickled forage.

See under Hay making

Prepared by chopping green forage (grass, legumes, field corn, etc) into an airtight chamber, where it is compressed to exclude air and undergoes an acid fermentation that retards spoilage. Silage contains about 65 percent moisture.

Silage is fermented, high-moisture forage to be fed to ruminants, cud-chewing animals like cattle and sheep. It is fermented and stored in a storage silo, a process called ensilage. Silage is most often made from grass crops, including corn (maize) or sorghum.

While more commonly being known as an agricultural fertilizer, Silage is also the name of a Christian alternative band formed in the 1990s out of Grass Valley, California."http://web.archive.org/web/19980215115244/www.sublimerecords.com/silgebio.html Silage Bio". Published by Sub*Lime Records, available through the Internet Archive. Retrieved Feb. 01, 2007.