Claim · model-written summary
Poor quality alfalfa silage resulted from fermentation at 20 and 30% dry matter.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Outcome
- Poor quality silagee0
- Qualifier
- at 20 and 30% DMe0
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Verbatim
e0“Poor quality silage resulted from the fermentation of alfalfa at 20 and 30% DM, and although additional glucose resolved this problem the additives did not”
Title
J. G. BUCHANAN-SMITH; Y. T. YAO Canadian Journal of Animal Science 1981. doi:10.4141/cjas81-081
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect The lactic acid bacteria additive did not affect final pH, lactic or acetic acid concentration of corn silage.
- Intervention effect The lactic acid bacteria additive did not affect crude protein, NPN-N or NH4+-N of corn silage.
- Intervention effect Recovery of energy from corn silage treated with the lactic acid bacteria additive was greater than control in two pairs of silos.
- Intervention effect Recoveries of dry matter and crude protein in corn silage were not consistently affected by the lactic acid bacteria additive.
- Intervention effect The enzyme and antioxidant additive did not affect pH, lactic acid or acetic acid of 60-day alfalfa silage.
- Intervention effect The enzyme and antioxidant additive did not affect butyric acid, Fleig score or residual water-soluble carbohydrate of 60-day alfalfa silage.
- Intervention effect The enzyme and antioxidant additive did not affect percent of total N as NPN-N or ammonia-N of 60-day alfalfa silage.
- Intervention effect Additional glucose resolved the poor quality of alfalfa silage made at 20 and 30% dry matter.
- Intervention effect The additives did not resolve the poor quality of alfalfa silage made at 20 and 30% dry matter.
- Intervention effect Additional water-soluble carbohydrate had beneficial effects on alfalfa silage fermentation.
- Intervention effect The enzyme and antioxidant additive with lactic acid bacteria was not very effective on alfalfa silage.
- Mechanism Lactic acid bacteria already present in untreated alfalfa are sufficient for adequate fermentation.