I sucked on the silage, beginning to like the sweet grassy bitterness.
In fact, the culprit is Lynda's dog Scruff, who drowned in the flood and is now decomposing in the silage.
Under proper storage conditions the silage ferments slightly and keeps for several months.
Two circular areas of churned, muddy soil reveal the original sites of the metal cages around which the cattle stood to feed on the silage they contained.
But on this day, the tractor broke down completely and the silage unloader, which is needed to feed corn to the cattle, failed.
Nancy: We were shoveling out the silage pit — it's the ground corn stalks we used to feed the dairy cows.
The silage pit was dug into a steep slope and the press corps crowded in at the top of the slope, where there was a drop of 10 or 12 feet into the pit proper.
Mr. Garst was concerned that the weight of the large crowd at the top of the cut could cause the unsupported earth to give way and dump a tangled mass of reporters and cameramen into the silage.
The fresher the silage, the higher the enzyme activities.
This causes the growth of undesirable aerobic microorganisms initially present in the silage, such as yeasts and molds that may spoil the silage [4].
Adding CaO to sugar cane silage reduces the silage fiber.
