Making Silage
Produce silage from grass or chaff for sale, biogas, or total mixed ration.
Route A: wrapped grass bales
Mow grass, optionally windrow it, bale it and wrap compatible grass bales. Wrapped bales ferment into silage. This route is easy to meter into a mixer and avoids bunker compaction.
Route B: bunker silo
Collect grass/chaff and tip it into a bunker. Drive over the pile repeatedly until compaction reaches 100%, then cover the bunker and wait for fermentation. Uncover and remove silage with a loader/bucket or compatible pickup system.
Making chaff
A forage harvester chops compatible crops such as corn into chaff. The harvester has no normal grain tank, so a trailer must travel beside it to receive the material.
Procedure
- Choose wrapped-bale or bunker route.
- Produce grass or chaff.
- For bales: bale grass, wrap compatible bales and allow fermentation.
- For bunker: deliver material into the bunker, level it, compact to 100%, cover and allow fermentation.
- After fermentation, collect the silage.
- Use it for cattle feed/TMR, a biogas route, sale or another production chain.
Equipment & tools
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Detailed procedure guides
GrassGrass supports hay, silage and animal-feed workflows and regrows after cutting.Making HayTurn mown grass into hay with a tedder, then collect it loose or bale it for livestock and TMR production.Baling & WrappingHow to collect windrows into bales and when to wrap grass bales for silage.Forage HarvesterChops crops/grass into chaff or forage and unloads continuously through a discharge pipe.Bale WrapperWraps compatible grass bales so they ferment into silage.
Alternative options
Wrapped grass bales
Simple storage and transport, good for modest volumes.
Simple storage and transport, good for modest volumes.
Bunker silo
High capacity, requires compaction and loader work.
High capacity, requires compaction and loader work.
Chaff
Large-volume forage harvesting route, often paired with maize.
Large-volume forage harvesting route, often paired with maize.