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Effects of adding a Lactobacillus Plantarum inoculant to grass ensiled at different dry matter concentrations and offered to beef cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

P. O'Kiely*
Affiliation:
Teagasc, Grange Research Centre, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland
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Silage fermentation is progressively restricted as the extent of pre-wilting increases (O'Kiely et_al., 1988). The magnitude of the improvement in silage nutritive value in response to a lactic acid bacteria inoculant could be related to the extent of the fermentation in the untreated silage. The objective of this experiment was to determine if the response in silage nutritive value to a Lactobacillus plantarum inoculant was similar at different levels of dry matter (DM) concentration.

Type
Silage
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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References

O'Kiely, P., Flynn, A.V. and Wilson, R.K. (1988). Irish Journal of Agricultural Research, 27: 3950.Google Scholar