One of the problems experienced in silage making is keeping tract of the diversity of forages available. Low sugar and high dry matter forages like alfalfa have always proved problematic – until now. A new specific silage inoculant has been shown to ...

01 jun 2005

When John Bax looks at a cow, he sees a container for micro-organisms. Limin Kung has 30 years' experience in using microbes to improve silage quality, whilst Charlie Sniffen believes putting all this information into an effective model will help us ...

01 oct 2004

When is a by-product not a by-product? When it's a co-product. Turning food industry waste into nutritious, cost-effective and safe feed for livestock can be achieved by careful fermentation processes. This requires expert knowledge and ingredient-sp...

01 jun 2003

01 apr 2003

Silage is- and will remain for a long time– a major part of the ruminant's ration. Considering all the new constraints concerning animal nutrition today, we can imagine that both farmers and the authorities will begin to pay more attention to sila...

01 feb 2003