That’s what my guy at Cargill is for!

  • @shalafi
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    381 month ago

    Dumb city folk think farmers don’t understand science.

    Without looking it up, what’s silage, what’s it for, how does it work. Go.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      Silage is fermenting crops under an oxygen deficiency(this is crucial to stop the crops from rotting) to preserve the gras. Its basically an upscaled version of making sauerkraut.

      Easy as that.

      But yeah, this devinetively isn’t something everyone knows and also most people will never need this in their lives.

    • Track_ShovelOPM
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      31 month ago

      A lot of that knowledge is passed on between generations, and was trial and error, rather than formal training.

      • @enbyecho
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        51 month ago

        Another name for “trial and error” is “experimentation”. And another word for “training” is “doing”.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I don’t think that at all. My family has had farms for the last four generations. The nitrogen thing is something I’ve actually heard, and it’s a great quote for memeing.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      Cool challenge

      Anaerobically fermented grass, it’s cattle feed for the winter, it ferments under covers without (much) air getting to it, that way it also doesn’t rot.

      I think. But I’m a network engineer so that could be wrong. It’s just what I think I heard in some random source I don’t remember.