PREWILTED SILAGE IS AN ENSILED GRASS FODDER OF TOP PRIORITY
Article is devoted quality, production and use of prewilted silage as a best kind of ensilage forage. In a review the forage names are considered. According to the theory of operationalism in 60s years of last century there was introduced a term “haylage”, and in 2010 and 2014 in Belarus (СТБ 1223), and then in the Russian Federation (ГОСТ Р 55986) the term “prewilted silage”. In Germany the prewilted silage (“Spitzensilage”, “Topsilage”) is considerd as a main kind of forage for cows, yielding 10000 L milk pro year. Now the annual volume of prewilted silage production in the Russian Federation exceeds 10 million tons. In some books published last years the information on a chemical composition and nutritive value of prewilted silage produced in the Vologda region and Udmurtiya Republic is reported. Mainly the article is devoted analysis of these data, examples of different quality prewilted silage are given, progressive methods for preparation of a highly nourishing forage are recommended. Foreign and domestic prices on fodder analyses are pointed out. It is recommended to improve system of a forage quality evaluation and use in an animal feeding formula.