silage Definition
si·lage (sī′lij)
silage Usage Examples
Converse of object
- feed: The cows when housed just get fed grass silage together with a few kg of meal fed using out of parlor feeders.
- cut: As we descended a farmer was busy cutting silage.
- produce: Instead of making hay, the crop is wrapped in plastic and fermented to produce silage.
- make: The farmer will not just make silage from grass.
- use: Sometimes grazing a particular field or using silage from it is always associated with milk fever.
Adjective modifier
- whole: Although wheat is more common, it is known some whole crop cereal silage is made from barley.
- high: It is the young leafy part that makes the highest quality silage.
- good: This can usually be achieved by feeding ad lib good quality silage.
- first: First cut grass silage or whole crop mixtures can also be used.
Modifies a noun
- bale: Allowing air into the silage bale will result in part or all of that bale going rotten.
- clamp: Re-use of tires includes weighing down silage clamp coverings, recycling includes paper etc taken to local authority amenity sites.
- fermentation: Investigation of direct gas production from silage fermentation acids.
- liquor: Never pollute watercourses with silage liquor, slurry, fertilizers or pesticides.
- pit: They could even be standing underneath a silage pit, possibly even constructed with a European Union grant for poor rural areas.
- additive: No silage additives have been used for the last five years.
Noun used with modifier
- maize: Maize silage from the previous autumn is often used most successfully.
- bale: Quality is an important factor when making big bale silage for both the cattle and the sheep.
- grass: First cut grass silage or whole crop mixtures can also be used.
- crop: Although wheat is more common, it is known some whole crop cereal silage is made from barley.
- cut: First cut grass silage or whole crop mixtures can also be used.
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