Producing and feeding quality pasture or cereal silage requires a combination of a quality crop or pasture, excellent fermentation together with excellent stack or bale and feed-out management.
The ultimate goal for your stack or bales is to completely eliminate oxygen and keep it out, creating an environment where good fermentation can take place.
During fermentation plant sugars are converted into lactic acid by the right strains of lactic acid producing bacteria (for more information see point 4) working in oxygen-free conditions.
Yeasts and moulds grow in the presence of air. They make silage heat and decrease the quality and the quantity of the silage available for feeding. Oxygen-free conditions can be achieved by compacting air out of the silage and keeping it out.
Getting more out of your pasture and cereal silage
When you make silage you always lose some drymatter and quality in the ensiling and feed-out process. The key aim of pasture or cereal silage making and feeding should be to maximise silage quality and minimise drymatter losses.
With better quality feed and more of it, animal production is higher. This means even more milk or meat and more money from your pasture or cereal silage investment.
Pasture silage making guide
*Some balers may require higher drymatter levels for baling.
Cereal silage making guide
The financial benefit of using a quality inoculant
You have invested in pasture or cereal silage. Make sure you get the most out of it.
More milk per tonne of pasture
*Drymatter recovery is based on 16 pasture silage trials conducted at independent European research stations that were submitted to the official German silage additive approval scheme. Milk production per tonne of pasture silage fed is based on three
independent dairy trials. Assumes a milksolids payout of $4.55/kgMS. Trials are available on request.
More meat per tonne of forage
*Drymatter recovery data is based on 10 trials conducted with a range of silages including oats, wheat, lucerne,
forage sorghum and maize. Beef production per tonne of silage fed is based on six beef feeding trials conducted using oats, wheat, pasture, lucerne, forage sorghum
and maize. Assumes a beef price of $3.47/kg carcass and a dressing out percentage of 50%. Trials are available on request.
Storage management
Good stack or bale storage management plays a critical role in maximising silage quality and reducing feed wastage. Below are some tips to help you optimise your silage storage and feed-out management.
Aim to keep the face of your silage stack tight throughout the feed-out period. Silage that is loose allows the air to penetrate into the stack. This air allows yeasts and moulds to grow causing silage to heat, reducing quality and quantity.
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