How to Use silage in a Sentence

silage

noun
  • Field corn is being chopped for silage, and sweet corn still is available.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Farmers till soil, spread manure, store silage to feed their animals.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 20 June 2017
  • And speaking of the food… … there’s the silo, filled with teeny plastic silage.
    — Jonathan H. Liu, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2012
  • Farmers would likely have to pay more to bring in hay from out of state or rely on silage, Cole said.
    — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2022
  • High water prices also affect the cost of hay and silage, which in turn raises the cost of dairy products.
    — Edward Ring, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Nieusma says the best natural option for getting rid of white clover is to smother it with a silage tarp or pond liner.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 June 2026
  • The night air was close and cloudless, sultry with the stink of the seasonal silage coming off the surrounding fields.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Moon said silage can become so compacted that the silo can heat up even hotter than the air temperature.
    — Henry J. Morgan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • There’s alfalfa and silage corn [nearby], the neighbors have food plots and brassicas, and all these things that they’re supposed to love.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Higher levels of the chemicals were detected in corn stalks that are fermented and fed to livestock as silage.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • And because the plants don’t need to reach full maturity to become corn silage for animal feed, there’s a little more wiggle room.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • The company grows most of the food for the cattle on its properties, using a rotating mix of silage corn, wheat, and alfalfa.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • So operators demand for forages like corn silage is very inflexible.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
  • Cactus Feeders uses silage, and adds other ingredients as well.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The family farm specializes in almonds, sweet potatoes, corn silage, forage crops, and black eye beans, according to its website.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Area farmers have put in silage collection systems that protect animal feed from mixing with water from storms or stormwater discharge.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 20 June 2017
  • Scaling up cattle meant giant steel and concrete sheds and making silage with artificial fertiliser instead of hay from barn muck in the old system.
    — James Rebanks, Time, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bolsen noted that silage comprises 60 to 70 percent moisture, and a cubic yard of the animal feed can weigh up to half a ton or more.
    — Andrew O'Reilly, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Today, farmers from the Republic take the new ferry service to sell silage and hay from the lush fields of County Louth to customers north of the border.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Field activities included harvesting corn for grain, soybeans, corn for silage, potatoes, sugarbeets, sunflowers, and dry beans.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
  • But a whopping 86 percent of water is consumed by crop irrigation, including the 32 percent of water used to grow crops that humans don’t even eat directly, such as alfalfa, hay, and corn silage for livestock.
    — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Maine adopted screening levels that trigger more investigation when PFAS testing detects certain concentrations in beef, fish, hay, milk, silage and soil.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • Cousin Who ‘Gardens’ Serviette Sour Diesel, $175 Founder-perfumer Trey Taylor’s heady blend of kush, pink pepper, patchouli and rhubarb evokes the kind of silage that a cannabis enthusiast’s dreams are made of.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • However, in New England, silage corn harvest can extend to late October due to labor constraints, unfavorable soil conditions, and weather variability, which can substantially narrow the window for early cover crop establishment using these conventional drill-seeding methods.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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