Silage can be made from corn, alfalfa, various grasses, or cereal grains. The crop is cut green in the field with a forage harvester when it's at the proper stage of growth. The harvester can be self propelled or a pull type behind a tractor. The harvester blows the silage into wagons or trucks which haul the silage to where it will be stored. Storage can be a pit, bunker, silo, or plastic ag-bag. When the silage is unloaded it is packed tightly by its own weight or mechanical means so that as much oxygen as possible is forced out. In the absence of air (oxygen) the silage goes through a "pickling" process and becomes stable for long term storage. Silage can be fed directly to cows or mixed with other feed stuffs in a mix wagon and then fed out. Once a storage device is opened the silgage should be fed on a daily basis so that the "face" is used before it has a chance to spoil from exposure to air.
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Today's Featured Article - The Day Mom Drove the 8N - by Brian Browning. My Dad was wanting to put in a garden but couldn't operate the 8N and handle the old horse drawn plow he had found and rigged up to use with the tractor. Well, he decided to go get Mom out of the house and have her drive the tractor while he walked behind the plow. You got to understand that while my Mom is a hard worker who will always help whenever she can... she had never operated farm machinery before that day. Dad got her out there, explained how the clutch was the same as in our o
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