The effect of three commercial silage additives on numbers of lactobacilli entering the silo at the onset of fermentation

Silley, P.; Damoglou, A.P.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1985.tb00994.x

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“…Other bacteria, including Enterobacteriaceae, were identified using the API 20NE system. The commercial bacterial inoculant, Ecosyl, used in the second experiment was assayed for homolactic lactobacilli by the method of Silley and Damaglou (1985).…”

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Effect of long‐term application of animal slurries to grassland on silage quality assessed in laboratory silos

Anderson

Christie

1995

J Sci Food Agric

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The effect on silage quality of slurry type (pig or cow), rate of application of slurry (50, 100 or 200 m3 ha-' year-') and use of a bacterial silage inoculant, was assessed on grass from a long-term slurry experiment ensiled in laboratory silos. There was no significant effect of slurry type on the quality of silage made from grass regrowths. However, on the basis of ammonia-N, lactate and volatile fatty acid contents, spring (first cut) grass treated with cow slurry in both years of the study produced significantly poorer fermentation (P < O W 1 ) than silage from grass treated with pig slurry. The quality of silage made from slurry-treated swards compared favourably with that from swards treated with granular fertiliser. Although increasing the rate of slurry application was shown to reduce fermentation quality in most treatments, this was seen as an effect of increasing the total-N content of the herbage rather than of slurry application per se. From a study, in selected treatments, of the bacterial flora at harvest, it was also observed that slurry application had little impact on either the composition or diversity of herbage enterobacteria at harvest, and therefore probably upon subsequent fermentation. No evidence was found for the occurrence of clostridia on herbage from slurry-treated swards. Use of a bacterial inoculant (Ecosyl; ICI plc) improved fermentation quality significantly (P < 0.001) even where high rates of slurry (200 m3 ha-' year-') had been applied to swards. The high acetate and butyrate contents typical of laboratory silages untreated with additive, were not seen in the inoculated silages.

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Effect of long‐term application of animal slurries to grassland on silage quality assessed in laboratory silos

Anderson

Christie

1995

J Sci Food Agric

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Lactic Acid Bacteria in Plant Silage

Brookes¹,

Bückle²

1992

The Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 1

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Evaluation studies in the development of a commercial bacterial inoculant as an additive for grass silage

Anderson¹,

Gracey²,

Kennedy³

et al. 1989

Grass and Forage Science

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Two 2×2 factorial experiments are described in which a bacterial inoculant being developed as a silage additive and containing a strain of Lacto‐bacillus plantarum (Ecosyl, ICI plc) was evaluated at two harvests (18 July and 30 September 1985) of two swards (perennial ryegrass and permanent pasture) in difficult ensiling conditions. On each occasion erbage was ensiled with and without inoculant using two 0·5–t capacity steel tower silos per treatment. The contents of the two replicate silos per treatment were combined for feeding to cross‐bred wethers in digestibility and metabolizable energy (ME) partition studies. Overall, inoculated herbage declined in pH post‐harvest at a faster rate than control herbage (p<0·001) and three out of the four inoculated silages had lower pH, ammonia‐N, acetate and alcohol and higher residual soluble carbohydrate content (p<0·001) than control. Significantly higher digestibility of nutrients (P<0·05) was found in three of the inoculant‐treated silages and these also had significantly higher ME values than control (P<0·001), (10·58 and 8·77 MJ kg tol DM−1 for the treated and untreated silages respectively). The use of inoculant on herbage of only moderate ensiling potential therefore, produced significant improvements in fermentation quality and feeding value over control.

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The effect of three commercial silage additives on numbers of lactobacilli entering the silo at the onset of fermentation

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Effect of long‐term application of animal slurries to grassland on silage quality assessed in laboratory silos

Effect of long‐term application of animal slurries to grassland on silage quality assessed in laboratory silos

Lactic Acid Bacteria in Plant Silage

Evaluation studies in the development of a commercial bacterial inoculant as an additive for grass silage

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