Crops silage

Formic acid may be safely used as a preservative in hay crop silage in an amount not to exceed 2.25% of the silage on a dry weight basis or 0.45% when direct-cut. The top foot of silage stored should not contain formic acid and silage should not be fed to livestock within 4 weeks of treatment. 

Agricultural goods like crop, silage and malt are dried in kiln and rotary kiln diy-ers, which lead the drying medium through or over the product. Often the drying... 

Kenaf is a grass fiber crop that has been proposed as a papermaking source. It is an aimual crop and can be grown in many parts of the country. There have been agronomic problems with kenaf, primarily its vulnerabiUty to nematode pests. Another problem is that kenaf is harvested once a year and must then be stored, usually as silage. There is some loss of the fiber in storage. 

Figure 8 The effect of fertilizer application and rainfall and the emissions of NO and N,0 from clay loam soils cropped with ryegrass cut for silage in South Scotland.

The preventive procedure relies on putting worm-free animals on a parasite-free or a clean pasture. Clean areas may be new leys or can be provided on permanent pasture by alternating with other livestock species not sharing the same spectrum of parasites, or by use of aftermath after harvesting a hay or silage crop (this procedure is generally difficult to apply under practical farming conditions). 

Nishino, N. Yochida, M. Shiota, H. Sakaguchi, E. Accommodation of 1,2-propane-diol and enhancement of aerobic stability in whole crop maize silage inocculated with Lactobacillus buchneri, J. Appl. Microbiol., 2003, 94, 800-807. 

The proximate analyses, mineral composition, digestibility coefficients and nutritive values of brassicas, by-products, grains, grasses, hays, legumes, oil cakes, root crops, seeds and silages are given in MAFF/ADAS (1971) Nutrient Allowances and Composition of Feedingstuffs for Ruminants (Advisory Paper No. 11). 

In France, the amount of area devoted to com crops actually fell between 1840 and 1944, dropping from an estimated 630 000 to 200 000 ha. Much of the com crop, especially silage com, was used to feed livestock raised on the farm. The decline in area was not consistent over France and was particularly marked in the southwest, where farming used less technology. 

Both the tubers and the aerial parts of Jerusalem artichoke are fed to animals. This can be in the form of forage, silage, food pellets, or prebiotic feed supplements. The leaves of Jerusalem artichoke, in particular, are protein-rich and nutritionally comparable to better known forage crops. 

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