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
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.
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.
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.