Silage Additive

delaval

What do ye think. We used in the past innoculents I think they were called a lot of cash and to be honest I saw little or no return.
Perhaps the wet silage season sulphuric acid would have helped preservation.

Mulumpy

delaval wrote: »

What do ye think. We used in the past innoculents I think they were called a lot of cash and to be honest I saw little or no return.
Perhaps the wet silage season sulphuric acid would have helped preservation.

Haven't used an additive for over ten years. Silage went in very wet last year but still came out fine apart from bit of waste at sides. Is the likes of sila save any good for top layer.

bob charles

depends on what your using, some will really aid digestion at feed out. Dont see much reason for the additive for preservation unless grass is well above 40dm and feeding out during the summer.

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

depends on what your using, some will really aid digestion at feed out. Dont see much reason for the additive for preservation unless grass is well above 40 and feeding out during the summer.

Well above 40 whats?

td5man

delaval wrote: »

Well above 40 whats?

°c

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

Well above 40 whats?

40 DM

buffalobilly

Tried quite a few additives here came to the conclusion that good silage is all down to the covering plastic up the wall and 2 covers on top them sausage bags are a good for sealing around walls

bogman_bass

what about going back to molasses or beet pulp?

additive, improves palitability and you have the feed vallue of the product itself.

Its messy though

mf240

Lads poor old delaval is only mad for ye to ask him if he has silage fit to cut and ye wont help him out.:D

bob charles

bogman_bass wrote: »

what about going back to molasses or beet pulp?

additive, improves palitability and you have the feed vallue of the product itself.

Its messy though

but at €200t its expensive having a good few tons sitting in the pit for 6months. Much prefer to use as and when needed at correct quantities.

moy83

Would molasses dribbled out onto the wet silage before baling last year have improved preservation and silage quality ?

bob charles

moy83 wrote: »

Would molasses dribbled out onto the wet silage before baling last year have improved preservation and silage quality ?

preservation - yes
silage quality - no.

if the silage isnt quality before its being cut, there is no way of improving it. you just added sugar to it

moy83

bob charles wrote: »

preservation - yes
silage quality - no.

if the silage isnt quality before its being cut, there is no way of improving it. you just added sugar to it

I noticed alot of the bales we bought this year would have a little bit of white mould on them and wouldnt last great once they were opened , I reckon the molasses could of solved that problem

loveta

Does alot of it not depend on when your cutting like mid/late may yes use on but say roughly 10th june onwards no real benefit???

freedominacup

loveta wrote: »

Does alot of it not depend on when your cutting like mid/late may yes use on but say roughly 10th june onwards no real benefit???

Roughly 22nd May on no real benefit. As soon as you see any heads on silage forget buying innoculants/enzymes. In general the only guys who will get a return from them are winter finishers and winter milkers.