Despite the great potential of using MO leaves as high quality animal feed, its global commercial use has been restricted only to small farm holders leaning on hand-cut and not on modern machinery-based forage producers. The reasons for this restricted exploration are: MO is a fast growing tree producing a thick trunk and branches that create problems for commercial machinery-based harvesters (e.g. forage harvester or forage combine), routinely used in the forage production industry; MO leaves are characterized by high moisture content (150–200 g/kg DM) and therefore became moldy during direct ensiling, and needed a week of wilting in the field before successful ensiling (Cohen-Zinder et al., submitted forpublication).