“…Numerous studies have tested carbohydrate and bacterial additives for the improvement of alfalfa silage quality (Rambau et al, 2017;Tao et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2019;Besharati et al, 2020b). Various agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., apple pomace and its silage, tomato pomace, citrus pulp, sugar beet pulp and pistachio peel) have demonstrated considerable potential as animal feed (Ayaşan et al, 2012;Rahbarpour et al, 2012;Palangi et al, 2013;Ulger et al, 2018Ulger et al, , 2020Fayed, 2019;Marcos et al, 2019;Naderi et al, 2019;Selçuk et al, 2019;Yurtseven et al, 2019;Zhou et al, 2019;Çayıroğlu et al, 2020;Davies et al, 2020;Gharehbagh et al, 2020). These low-value products, generally considered waste, can be fermented and incorporated into silages as a source of carbohydrates.…”