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Silage Crops for Dairy and Beef Cattle I: Corn

Marcelo Wallau, , , Adegbola Adesogan, Diwakar Vyas, andKevin Korus


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Field Corn
Field Corn
Grain Forage
Grain Forage
Silage
Silage

Any crop that is harvested green and preserved in a succulent condition by partial fermentation in a more-or-less airtight container such as a silo.

Silage refers to feed preserved by an anaerobic fermentation process in which lactic acid and volatile fatty acids (produced by fermentation) lower the pH of the silage.

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Agronomy
Agronomy

Publication #SS-AGR-69

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