The targeted application of a Silage Additive can help maximise the quality of  silage through better preservation of the valuable nutrients. This targeted use is in combination with best practice silage making, working to quickly and efficiently remove air from the forage and seal it out. These steps result in a controlled aerobic fermentation which preserves protein and energy in the best form to be used by the rumen.

When fermentation is not so efficient energy is lost to heat and water, and protein is degraded, so the nutrients are wasted and the forage has less animal feed value. This loss can be significant even in reasonably well made silage, it does not need to be noticeably bad silage for loss to have occurred. Couple this with the challenging conditions through a varying season we get in the South West and we have a situation where the judicious use of a silage additive can help the farm achieve its forage aims

Our Bonsilage range of products from Europe’s top manufacturer Schaumann have been developed to make excellent grass, maize, wholecrop and Lucerne silage in Europe’s challenging conditions. The bacteria in the inoculants have undergone significant development in order to achieve the right balance of fast fermentation to ‘make’ the clamp quickly to preserve the nutrients, combined with fermentation products to achieve face stability at feed out and avoid energy loss at this stage.

Bonsilage has unique products in the range for different dry matter conditions, and faster making where the clamp needs to be opened quickly. Schaumann are also world leading in developing silage inoculants containing bacteria which produce propylene glycol in the clamp. This clever development converts the by-products of silage fermentation into propylene glycol and so concentrated usable energy for the cows, continuing the central theme to our silage inoculant usage – waste no nutrients. Read more about Bonsilage here.

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