Silage

[Plain steer]

If you clamp a thousand tons of grass with zero effluent around 30dm will there be a thousand tons when you come to use it?.?

 

[cull cows]

I would think so

 

[Tarw Coch]

Did you weigh it when you put it in?

 

[Plain steer]

No but what’s this dry matter losses crack?

 

[Yale]

No,the fermentation process uses sugars and releases carbon dioxide,therefore some loss of mass.

However I could not tell you how much.

This article touches on it.

https://hayandforage.com/article-1153-cut-fermentation-losses.html