HDRider
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Is there a difference between Haylage and Silage?
What advantages do you value on each?
Thanks all -
What advantages do you value on each?
Thanks all -
Angus Cowman":ubbwgfy4 said:Haylage is usually referring to Grass that has been baled and wrapped at a higher moisture it needs to be 27% or higher
Baleage is usually reffering a grain crop that has been cut and baled at the higher moisture as stated above
sileage is usually a grain crop that has been cut and chopped and put in bulk silos, ie... bunks,bags ,or upright silos...
Just for the sake of simplicity I call anything silage that has been chopped. Those that are simply cut, allowed to wilt and baled you can call whatever you want. We use to chop coastal bermuda, put into a bunker silo and allow it to insile. Made some pretty good "silage" for the dairy cattle especially in the heat of summer when they wouldn't touch hay and really supported high butterfat content when noone else could get butterfat.regolith":5px7gv36 said:That is not how the word is used here or in the UK, just to clarify what I wrote above. Hay/haylage/silage/baleage (sometimes the word baleage is used in NZ) refers to grass and if any other crop is used that is specified, eg, lucerne hay, maize (corn) silage, wholecrop silage, when talking about it.
regolith":c98b9113 said:That is not how the word is used here or in the UK, just to clarify what I wrote above. Hay/haylage/silage/baleage (sometimes the word baleage is used in NZ) refers to grass and if any other crop is used that is specified, eg, lucerne hay, maize (corn) silage, wholecrop silage, when talking about it.