silage

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Like all dairy farmers, Gordon uses the good weather in spring and summer to grow and cut silage - grass that will be baled and used as fodder for the herd over winter.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

But he added that it had meant farm work been busier than usual as some farmers were trying to cut silage at the same time.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

Eighty acres of corn silage keep the herd fed through winter.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024

With no livestock to feed, the acreage now used to grow silage and hay could be replaced with food crops.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

Two silage towers shone like Victorian Apollo spacecraft.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell