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Silage Harvesting Equipment1

Cromwell, R. P.2

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Dairy and beef cattlemen in the humid Southeast can grow an abundance of forages during the region's long growing season. The biggest problem cattlemen face is preserving some of the excess forage to carry their herds over the relatively short winter season. Dairymen are often interested in feeding some type of harvested feed year around.

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1. This document is DS53, one of a series of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 1992. Reviewed June 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2. Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department; Associate Professor, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center; Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department; Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.