Silage & Forage Technical Articles
Formulation and ingredients
Formulation and ingredients
Article published the May 26, 2011:
As a dairy farmer consider the following questions: How high is your herd performance? How high is the milk yield from basic fodder? And how high are your production costs per liter of milk (full cost calculati...
Article published the May 17, 2011:
1. Potential Did you know how high the energy density of your grass patches is or which kinds of grasses and weeds grow there? Is grass mixture really decisive for the production of high quality grass silage? I...
Article published the November 16, 2009:
A new concept in enzyme technology has allowed farmers to increase the amount of energy and protein they get from home grown forages. The new enzymes acting together, separate the energy containing cellulose fr...
Article published the September 23, 2009:
The aim was to determine if bacterial inoculants could eliminate E. coli O157:H7 (ECOL) in contaminated corn silages and if inoculants transferred antibacterial activity to silages. Chopped corn forage was ensi...
Article published the July 14, 2009:
Pros and Cons of Applying Manure on Perennial Forage AdvantagesManure can be a valuable source of nutrients for forage crops. It is a "complete" fertilizer, containing varying amounts of all the major plant nut...
Article published the June 30, 2009:
Alfalfa winterkill this spring was worse than anticipated across the province, forcing many to reseed significant acreage. Where a cereal nurse crop is used to establish a new alfalfa seeding, the nurse crop wi...
Article published the June 9, 2009:
Silage is the product of the fermentation of different crops caused mainly by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) based on the acidification of the material under anaerobic conditions. Biological silage additives are us...
Article published the April 27, 2009:
Corn silage is great cattle feed. When harvested and stored correctly it has a lot of digestible fiber, plenty of starch from the grain to provide lots of energy, and is well-liked by cattle. However, like most...
Article published the March 9, 2009:
The preservation of feed for periods of underproduction is a universal problem. All farmers worldwide face the need of guaranteeing the feed for their animals over the year, and not only quantitatively but al...
Article published the February 16, 2009:
The importance of harvest moisture and maturity to corn silage quality and animal performance is often underestimated. Not only is it important to minimize fermentation dry matter and spoilage losses, it is dif...