SilagePro
Higher-Quality Silage Builds A Lower-Cost Ration
Normal fermentation
All silages experience heating and microbial activity that result in a loss of energy, starch, digestible protein and dry matter. Good management practices help reduce losses but do not eliminate them.
Controlling the microbial process
SilagePro® alters the fermentation – pH drop is accelerated, less heat is produced, fermentation takes days, not weeks and fiber digestibility is increased – dramatic differences that can be measured by forage analysis and animal response!
“SilagePro was the only commercial product that controlled heating”
Utah State University – Trial conducted using 9’ Ag-Bags filled by alternating loads
A fast, cool fermentation yields more silage at feedout.
Less heat – less shrink
Electron microscopy of fiber after enzyme action
SilagePro’s enzyme group releases sugars and “breaks fiber bonds”, opening the fiber and increasing surface area for digestive bacteria. This increases the rate of fiber digestion and improves NDF digestibility.
Photo courtesy of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
%NDF digestion in fistulated cows
Data from trial at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Projected cow performance income over cost – CPM Dairy
Ration balanced using Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada data and indicates changes per cow per day
Macdonald College
Two-year study evaluating intake, weight loss and milk production.
Elliot Block, PhD. and Henry J. Garino
Year 2: Dairy cow performance
