Silage preserver???

[DSC]

Does anyone have any experience with silage inoculants? I'm looking into using this but I am looking for others opinions. What brand do you use? What is the cost?
Thanks

 

[Bar QH]

I don't do any actual silage. But about 6000 big squares of baleage. I've tried inoculates and found no results just extra time and money. I strive to make the tightest bale possible to help fermentation, which I'm sure you know. I had a guy act like I was stupid for not using inoculates, we compared tests, and I blew his out of the water. Could be blind luck but didn't help his case either way.

 

[HGC]

I work with 30 plus dairies in the upper Midwest doing nutrition.  Bar QH is correct on balage.  Inoculant is a waste of money on balage.  I have been tracking fermentation profiles for 5 years on balage and haylage samples at similar moistures, and balage undergoes very little fermentation.

For haylage and corn silage I do recommend it and we have our own custom inoculant made.  It has a lot higher bacteria counts than most of the commercially available inoculants.  We sell ours for 55 cents per treated ton.  When corn silage is worth $40-60/ton and haylage worth $100 plus per ton, it is cheap insurance.  Just a 1% decrease in DM loss will pay for the inoculant.

 

[DSC]

55 cents per treated ton sounds real cheap. Do you have any scientific data on your product? What do you call it?

 

[MSweeney_199]

We chop alot of feed and we use a product from Pioneer from our local seed rep

 

[DSC]

What is the cost of the pioneer product?

 

[Lexand]

Hello,
We are using the following silage inoculant for corn silage (Bonsilage Mais):
http://valdisagro.by/en/catalog/silage-inoculants/
So, diller told that minimum storage period is 6-8 weeks becouse of Lactobacillus buchneri.
What can we do to start to use it earlier? We have no enough corn silage to wait so much.