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A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. [1] Silage is grass , corn or hay , which has been chopped into small pieces, and compacted together in a storage silo , silage bunker, or in silage bags. [ 2 ]
West Monroe is the second largest city in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is situated on the Ouachita River, across from the neighboring city of Monroe. The two cities are often referred to as the Twin Cities of northeast Louisiana. Its population was 13,065 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical ...
Silage must be firmly packed to minimize the oxygen content, lest it spoil. Silage goes through four major stages in a silo: [14] Presealing, which, after the first few days after filling a silo, enables some respiration and some dry matter (DM) loss, but stops. Fermentation, which occurs over a few weeks.
Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.
Sorghum grown as forage crop.. Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. [1] Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage.
"Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage). Fodder includes hay , straw , silage , compressed and pelleted feeds , oils and mixed rations, and sprouted grains and legumes (such as bean sprouts , fresh malt , or spent malt ).
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Our Go-To Turkey Gumbo. This recipe comes to us from the World Championship Gumbo Cookoff in New Iberia, Louisiana, where Beau Beaullieu and Andy Soileau’s New Iberia Kiwanis Club team has ...