11A44
Multicrop - fresher silage for longer
11A44 is ideal for use all types of silage including maize, forage sorghum, lucerne, pasture and high moisture corn. 11A44 helps keep silage fresher and cooler in the storage structure for longer. It contains Lactobacillus buchneri, a novel proprietary bacteria, proven to enhance silage bunklife.
- Preserves nutritional quality of silage by reducing nutrient loss to spoilage and heat-causing organisms
- Proven ability to reduce heating after silage is exposed to air (2006 NSW Department of Agriculture trials)
- Improves bunklife in slow-fill or slow-feedout situations
- Reduces dry matter loss
Pioneer® inoculant 11A44 prevents heating in silage trial
In two experiments conducted by NSW Department of Primary Industries at Wagga Wagga in 2006, Pioneer® inoculant 11A44 was applied to maize silage made from Pioneer® hybrid 38F70. In both experiments samples from the same silage were also left untreated.
Three replicates of each treatment in each experiment were stored for three months then exposed to air. The temperature of each opened silage sample was recorded for the next nine days.
It took just 36 hours for the temperature to rise by 2°C above ambient temperature in the untreated sample (see Fig. 1). Over the same time period, the 11A44-treated silage did not rise in temperature. After 47 hours the uninoculated treatments had reached a maximum temperature of about 50°C. There was still no rise in temperature in the 11A44-treated maize silage over this time period. In fact there was no increase in temperature in 11A44-treated silage over the entire nine days that the samples were exposed to air in either of the two experiments.
[Figure 1: Silage treated with 11A44 did not rise in temperature over 47 hours. The control silage (uninoculated) reached maximum temperature (50°C) during the same time period.]