Overview

The ensiling is an amazing biological process that has been helping people preserve feed for centuries. This book is unique because it provides a comprehensive view of the ensiling process and the silage itself in its entirety: it starts with fodder growing in the fields, proceeds through harvesting and conservation, and then ends with the intake of silage by animals. The book is very richly illustrated (more than 450 photographic shots and more than 170 illustrations and diagrams) and on this basis, its ambition is to explain the ensilage process to anyone who is interested in this process in any way. The book explains to managers the importance and the biological background of many details that fundamentally affect the success of the silage process. It offers professionals and researchers a wide range of detailed views on the ensiling process in practice and on the possibility of explaining new knowledge to the target group: silage producers themselves. This book will be of significant interest also to students and advisors of cattle nutrition and feed evaluation.

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Author:   Tomáš Mitrík
Publisher:   Wageningen Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Wageningen Academic Publishers
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9789086863587

ISBN 10:   9086863582
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   10 May 2021
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of contents Categorisation and structure of information 10 Silage making and ensilage 24 Ensilage – break-down 31 Forage nutritional quality 33 Forage on the field 47 Mowing 55 Wilting 61 Chopping 79 Mechanical processing 83 Silage 87 Forage 91 Silo 95 Compaction 101 ‘Better use’ of a bunker silo 114 Covering and sealing 115 Silage bags 123 Bales 133 Uncompacted silage and losses of energy 141 Yesterday’s final layer 142 Rain interrupted the ensiling procedure 143 Silage piles 145 Fermentation process 151 Fermentation stages 163 Aerobic stage in the field 173 Aerobic stage in silo 177 Black colouration in silage 180 Main fermentation stage 181 Yellow to orange colouration of silage 206 Acids preservation effect 209 Red colouring of maize silage 213 Aerobic stability 215 Bunker silo walls 222 Feed out 223 Quality assessment 229 Uncompacted uppermost layer 240 Silage additives 241 Nutrients in silage 247 Silage sampling 251 Losses 257 Ensiling over the walls between bunker silos 262 Silage palatability 263 References 267 Index 273

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