Silage vs Pasture - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between silage and pasture

is that silage is fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo while pasture is land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

is that silage is to ensilage while pasture is to move animals into a pasture to graze.

(wikipedia silage)

Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo.

(silag)

To ensilage.

(en noun)

Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.

* Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .

* Shakespeare

So graze as you find pasture .

(obsolete) Food, nourishment.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

* pasture rose * pasture thistle

To move animals into a to graze.

To graze.

To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

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