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Silage Additive

Inoculant product development

Researchers in inoculants are leading the way to develop products that enhance the value of stored forage, grain and feed to increase the efficiency and profitability of animal producers.

Their primary focus is to:

  • Reduce storage dm matter losses.
  • Improve aerobic stability.
  • Enable greater retention of nutrient value.

Research efforts are focused on the development of inoculants for high moisture maize grain, maize silage, and grass silage. As leaders in forage additive research, Pioneer microbiologists use technology to develop inoculants for silage improvement by working with the largest catalogued bacterial strain bank in the industry. Extensive research, combined with proprietary bacteria, is what makes Pioneer® brand inoculants vital management tools in aiding and improving the nutritional value of silage.

These inoculants have demonstrated the ability to reduce storage losses effectively and improve the aerobic stability of silage on both the storage surface and in the silage clamp, as well as improving the feeding value of the silage. Pioneer is continually using new technologies to do research on an increasing number of prototype inoculants each year. The significant research effort and unsurpassed quality requirements provide producers with the best silage inoculants available in the market.

Complementing this product development process is the Pioneer Livestock Nutrition Centre located near Polk City, Iowa. This one-of-a-kind facility conducts performance trials to help ensure dairy and beef producers get maximum value from their feed and forage investments. With the increasing number of prototypes tested each year, Pioneer is able to bring products that offer significant advantage in value per acre and in animal performance to the market faster.

Silage Inoculant Applicator

It has always been necessary to ensure the uniform distribution of bacteria in forage to achieve the full effect of bacterial silage inoculants however in recent years the technology in this area has been somewhat slower to develop than the additives themselves.

Typical applicators for water-soluble silage inoculants have always been applied between 0.5 and 2.0 litres per tonne of forage harvested. At a harvest speed of 800 tonnes of forage per day the liquid volumes required ranges between 400 and 1600 litres daily. Consequently, a large volume and weight of water has to be transported and time consuming refills have to be managed.

The Appli-Pro ® SLV from Pioneer Hi-Bred needs only 8 litres of water to treat 800 tonnes of forage. Compressed air is used to inject the small volume of dissolved inoculant into the forager air intake.

1188 for Grass

  • Improves fermentation
  • Improves animal performance
When to use
  • When DM is below 30%
Key features
  • 20% reductions of in-silo losses
  • 46% reduction of ammonia content
  • 3.5% increase in digestibility
  • 50% increase of rumen microbial protein
  • Reduces effluent by 11%
  • Extra 4kg of beef LWG per tonne of grass ensiled
  • Extra 1.5kg milk per day

11A44 for Maize & Wholecrop

  • Improves aerobic stability
When to use
  • When DM is between 25% and 45%
Key features
  • Reduces DM losses by 8% over untreated control
  • A non-toxic biological solution that improves aerobic stability across a wide range of silages
  • Has been shown to reduce Yeasts and Mouldsv
  • Has been shown to maintain aerobic stability longer than silages treated with 5 litres of proprionic acid.

11G22 for Grass & Wholecrop

  • Improves aerobic stability
  • Improves fermentation
  • Improves animal performance
When to use
  • When DM is between 25% and 45%
Key features
  • Reduces DM losses in grass silage by 6%
  • Reduces DM losses in Wholecrop cereal silage by 3%
  • Treated grass silage increases LWG by 7.2kg/tonne ensiled

New Inoculants for Grass and Maize Silage from Pioneer

  • Increase intake
  • Improve animal performance
  • Improve aerobic stability
  • Improve fermentation
Key features
  • Two new silage inoculants for 2008 from Pioneer Hi-Bred, that will be marketed as 11GFT® and 11CFT®, offer the potential for a step change improvement in both grass and maize silage nutritional value
  • Pioneer Brand 11GFT® offers the potential for significant improvements in grass silage digestibility Pioneer Brand 11CFT® offers the potential for significant improvements in maize silage digestibility

Effect of increased NDF availability in the animal

Contact


Contact your CF Forage Manager for more information about these new products.