Prepare for Silage Harvesting
Carry out any repairs in sufficient time to allow adequate curing of concrete, etc; stack tyres beside the silo to facilitate quickly placing them on the polythene cover once the silo is filled; An additive can be a good investment and sugars can be measured on farm using a refractometer, while both sugars and buffering capacity can be measured on grass samples submitted before harvesting to the laboratories.
In twenty eight published trails carried out over the past decade in Britain and Ireland for a well known additive it reduced DM loss by at least 7%, because of enhanced fermentation and milk increased by 1.3 litres per cow/day or daily live weight gain by 300 grams/day.
