Grass silage was common in PA where I grew up.
Previous two posts are both correct. Locally haylage is grass based and silage is corn based. Around here the local mega farms no longer bother with silos. They either blow the product into giant plastic bags looking like huge white french bread loaves or into bunkers. Two of my sons were covering bunkers full of haylage yesterday for a neighbor. They usually hire jr high or high schoolers to drag the plastic sheets over the top of the concrete bunkers and to toss the tires on to hold the plastic in place. Bunkers are 3 sided concrete bins about 20’ wide and up to 100’ or more long with 10-15’ foot walls. Product is dumped in the entrance and dozed into as large a pile as possible with a compactor on top pressing it down.
It may be that the process of directly acidifying silage is a practice more common in colder climates, where an early onset of cold weather might inhibit natural fermentation. I know it is practiced here in the UK - and had no reason to suspect it would be different elsewhere.
So silage is for preservation, huh? I always thought it made better feed (either because it was partially “digested” or because it released more nutrients into the food or whatever), but Wikipedia says that’s a lesser consideration. Ignorance fought.
That is the silliest thing I’ve heard all evening.
I mean yeah, on the bolts and cloning, but tractors used on farms are the larvae; the big things in the field are the pupal stage of the creature. Several variants of the adult forms are shown on this site.
Not all survive the metamorphosis, however, and I really don’t want to think about what they do with the ones that don’t. Sausages, I suppose :eek:.
I think it’s a bit of both - it’s for preservation, but the fermentation process does also improve the digestibility and some nutritional aspects of the fodder.
Here in Oz, we use bright green plastic - exactly the same shade as pumpkins.
Many people have been fooled into thinking ‘Wow. This giant pumpkin-growing craze is really getting out of hand’!
(Okay, that was just me…)
I think those actually are marshmallows, the way they grow, before they are cut into the bite-size pieces seen neatly packed in stores. They are a type of fungus, similar to mushrooms. Like mushrooms, those are just the fruiting bodies you see above ground, as opposed to the mycelium underground. They’ve been bred by marshmallow farmers for several centuries to become that large; feral ones are much smaller.
In the farmland area where I once lived (See this post), farmers made bales that size and shape but didn’t wrap them in anything. One farmhouse about a mile down the road had one in front of his house with two legs sticking out the end of it.
Where I grew up, this kind of event was very common.
In this hemisphere we have orange pumpkins. 
Those were outlawed here in Virginia.
The cows weren’t getting a square meal
It’s like they’re doing everything the opposite on purpose. They live upside down, their pumpkins are green. Their chickens probably lay cube-shaped eggs…
They bale cotton the same way, here in cotton country. Although for some reason the outer wraps on cotton bales are usually yellow.
It’s also vital in producing that authentic “country” smell, so city folks know where they are.
It could be bundles of rolled up field tile…except it’s the wrong time of the year for that.
It doesn’t produce that smell until the livestock are finished digesting it.
Yes…exactly…those are hay bales…nothing else…they are most definitely not alien hive larval pods preparing to hatch and launch a second wave of mind control attacks against the people living in towns and cities after their first scouting wave took over rural areas last March…because that didn’t happen…
The were giant Quaaludes, specifically Rorer 714’s as most long time Kiss and Def Leppard fans will attest.
Around here, most of the cotton farms are still using the giant rectangular bales. I assume because they’re the right size to easily fit on a flatbed to go to the processing plant and maybe because they’re too cheap to go the round bales (which are supposedly more efficient - but require newer equipment). You’re right about the yellow plastic.
Nitpick: those “giant rectangular bales” are called modules. Made by a module builder.