Re: Re: Silage, was FARMING

[Guest guest]

At 11:22 PM 2/24/2004, you wrote:

> >grass silage is called haylage.

>

>I'd assumed that hayledge is made from grass that's basically been dried

>out before fermenting, in contrast to grass sileage, made from fresh-cut

>grass. Not so?

paul - oh nonono!

not so! haylage is cut and chopped and bagged all in the same day. it's

imperative with the haylage that you get all the *wetness* from the grass

or it won't ferment. oh wait - i think i read your thing wrong. i see. no,

that's just semantics. around here the farmers call it haylage. i suppose

other places they might call it grass silage, but it's all the same thing.

[Guest guest]

haha! apparently, dennis, there's different names everywhere!

where we are, there are almost no silos (which is what makes silage

silage!). there's either corn mash or beet mash, which is fermented corn

plants or beet plants, and then there's haylage, which is fermented

fresh-cut haygrass, and then there's green-chop, which is haygrass that's

been cut and chopped and fed from trucks to the cows right away (usually

cause the pasture the cows are on is drought-affected or cause the cows are

on feed lot).

anyway. the names are probably regional...

At 11:41 PM 2/24/2004, you wrote:

>--- You don't make silage from grass. You can chop green and THEN

>ferment corn(corn silage),grain sorghum or a taller version of grain

>sorghum which is usually used(rather than grain sorghum). Haylage is

>chopped fresh(green) and fed fresh a few minutes later. Alfalfa is

>used as green chop as are others which can be hARVESTED 3 OR 4 TIMES

>SEASONALLY. Dennis

>

[Guest guest]

Helen-

>Having done my own research, you are right for the UK senses of the word.

Well, then obviously the UK is correct on the issue! <g>

Thanks for the clarification.

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