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Galena IL | Silage is corn. It is chopped when the whole plant is about 67% moisture. The whole plant is cut off about 8 inches above the ground and cut into app. 3/8 inch long pieces. It is then stored in a oxygen limiting bunker or pile they both must be packed. Upright silo sometimes over 100 tall weight packs them, or silage bags packed with a rotor up too 14 ft diameter and up to 500 ft long storing about .75 to 3.5 tons per ft. bunkers and piles are made of 1,000's of tons. The idea is limiting the oxygen much like fermenting pickles.... Dennis
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Silage usually refers to chopped corn and Haylage refers to grass or alfalfa but the term get use interchanged on most any fermented feed, sweet corn, pea's, sudan grass etc,
Edited by Angus8335 6/28/2026 14:20
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