Silage used in a sentence

Silage in a sentence as a noun

They make a product called "silage" which can be used as winter feed for the cattle.

Some corn is harvested as silage meaning the entire plant is chopped and fed to cows.

Animals roam meadows and uplands that are not suitable for growing crops and live on grass and silage.

Support food is usually silage made from hay, grown on land which is deemed too inefficient for other crops.

Herbivores in nature do not eat dead cows, chicken manure, dead chickens, grain or silage: They eat fresh or dried forage.

That is, if the crop is struggling and you don’t expect much yield as grain, then you might want to harvest it for silage to cut your losses.

They can't get the high schoolers out during haying season nearly as easily as they used to do. They rely on 40 year old cousins come up for a weekend here and there to help load some bales/wrap some silage.

True - the land around me has tons of fertilizer applied to maximize grass production and is grazed or cut for hay and silage.

I was under the impression that, in the case of corn at least, harvesting for silage or for grain was an either/or proposition.

They don't care where their corn silage comes from and they can even consume and detoxify aflatoxin-laden corn that cannot be placed into any other food supply.

You don't get any efficiencies from branding them all with laser-scannable barcodes, an 8-place milking machine, or an automatic silage manager.

The corn is dried using propane or maybe natural gas if the farm is lucky enough to have a hookup, the husks, or sometimes the whole plant, are used for silage and fed to animals, as is most of the corn, although that's generally sold to middlemen and bought by feedlots for cattle, and those who specialize in feeding other animals.