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Plan ahead
- Book in your contractor
- Order silage making suplies i.e. inoculant, cover and tape
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Harvest management
- Harvest your crop at 30-38% whole plant drymatter
- Aim for a maize chop length of 10-15 mm
- Use a plant processor to ensure all kernels are broken into at least 4 pieces.
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Pioneer® brand inoculant
- Use the guide on the next page to select the best Pioneer silage inoculant
- Choose a contractor that will apply Pioneer inoculant at harvest time
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Compaction
- Spread each load into 100-150 mm layers
- Compact until the silage surface is firm
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Sealing
- Cover with a high quality plastic cover
- Tape the joins
- Seal the edges with sand or lime
- Ensure tyres are touching one another right across the stack
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Maize silage analysis
- Collect a representative silage sample
- Send to laboratory for feed quality testing
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Feeding out
- Keep the stack or bunker face tight throughout the feed-out period
- Remove loose material each day
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