Abstract: A highly nutritive, storage-stable forage plant material in mat configuration having a moisture content of 20% by weight. The mat includes forage plant material in a cut and fiberized form in which substantially all plant cells of the plant material have been ruptured and the natural juices expressed therefrom reintroduced onto the mat prior to drying on the stubble to replace nutrients contained in the natural juices. The fiberized plant material includes fibers which have been exposed and at least partially separated so that they mechanically interlock and intertwine to produce a mat which is cohesive and shape-sustaining so as to be collectable from a field and stored without substantial tearing or breaking.