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The Preparation and Nutritive Value of Grass Silage

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

The more obvious aspects of grass silage are intended to be treated very briefly in the following discussion of the subject, but rather emphasis is to be put upon those features which are recognized as problems, or about which there is some uncertainty in view of conflicting results. A number of the following statements on grass silage may need to be revised in the light of newer knowledge.

The name "grass silage". A number of writers prefer the terms "legume and grass silage" or "hay-crop silage" to the term "grass silage" because the latter term seems incorrectly applied to silages made from soybeans, alfalfa, or other legumes, and from cereals like oats that ordinarily are not referred to as grass. However, the trend during recent years has been to ignore the strict botanical classification of those crops and to use the general term, "grass" silage.

Why grass silage? The primary reason for grass silage is that during rainy weather, ensiling frequently saves a hay crop.