Mixed ensiling with by-products and silage additives significantly valorizes drought-impaired whole-crop corn

Hartinger, Thomas; Gruber, Theresa; Fliegerová, Katerina; Terler, Georg; Zebeli, Qendrim

doi:10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2024.115899

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“…It is conceivable that additional sugars released during fungal fibre degradation in the silos were metabolized into lactic acid. Surprisingly, the effect was also present for the InactAF treatment, so clarification is needed regarding the mode of action as the active components were not present in the heat-inactivated additive and such effects have not been observed in our previous studies (Hartinger et al, 2022;Hartinger et al, 2024). In contrast to these findings, the pH was not as low as in CON silages, which is unexpected because lactic acid predominantly contributes to the pH decline in silages (Kung et al, 2018) and also disagrees with previous findings on AF-treated grass silages (Hartinger et al, 2022).…”

Section: Additional Application Of Silage Additivesmentioning

confidence: 75%

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Mixed ensiling of drought‐impaired grass with agro‐industrial by‐products and silage additives improves the nutritive value and shapes the microbial community of silages

Gruber,

Fliegerová,

Terler

et al. 2024

Grass and Forage Science

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Droughts lead to reduced biomass production and unfavourable nutrient composition in grassland. As an alleviation, yet unexploited strategy, mixed ensiling of grass with agro‐industrial by‐products may improve the ensilability and nutritive value of drought‐impaired grassland. This study investigated first whether mixed ensiling of drought‐impaired grass with either sugar beet pulp (SBP), wheat gluten feed (WGF) or brewers' grains (BG) has a beneficial impact on chemical composition, fermentation characteristics, in vitro gas production (GP) and physically effective neutral detergent fibre (peNDF) of silages. Secondly, it was tested whether the application of anaerobic fungi culture supernatant (AF), mixed ruminal fluid (RF) or lactic acid bacteria (LAB) provides further advantages. Additionally, the microbial community composition was evaluated in selected silages. All silages showed satisfying conservation characteristics with high lactic acid levels and low dry matter losses, and peNDF values typically found for conserved forages. Mixed ensiling with BG substantially increased the crude protein concentration, whereas SBP increased the total degradability and WGF enhanced both. The further addition of fresh AF resulted in the overall highest lactic acid levels, especially in SBP‐based silages, but without changes in in vitro GP. The in vitro GP was higher with RF, particularly in mixed silages, suggesting an improved degradability. The LAB‐treated silages showed lower pH compared to controls, but had no impact on in vitro GP kinetics. Concluding, mixed ensiling holds potential to produce high‐quality silages from drought‐impaired grassland. The further addition of silage additives can be useful for certain substrates, but appeared not mandatory.

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Section: Additional Application Of Silage Additivesmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…The AF was obtained as described by Hartinger et al (2024). Briefly, the AF was derived from the fungal strain Feramyces DF1 (GenBank accession number MW907584), which was isolated from deer rumen content.…”

Section: Production Of Silage Additivesmentioning

confidence: 99%