FARMING SILAGE

What is silage?

grass or other green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter.

 Order of silage 

1. usually to start of with the grass is cut with a mower mounted on a tractor and then is left for 24 hours 
2. then a tractor with a rotor rake then makes the cut grass into neat piles
3.  a forage harvester then arrives and silage trailers are hitched onto tractors the tractors and forage harvester arrive into the fields and pick up the grass which is spurted into trailers 
4. the tractors then drive to the silo and empty their trailers and the grass is flattened to let it dry out       

what is silage used for?

silage is used for feeding cows