Grass silage film is used to preserve grass, feed, and other organic components. LLDPE Silage film serves to prevent grass rot and support the ecosystem. Farmers can use silage film to wrap straws, thus saving animal feed. Silage needs to be wrapped during transportation to maintain silage conditions and prevent air from escaping. The use of silage is most suitable for cow feed rather than other types of animal feeding.
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How to Select Silage Film
For those of you who need silage wrap, we recommend choosing one that will last a season, or you will just end up spending a lot more money. You also pay attention to the amount of waste. Your goal with silage wrapping is to prevent oxygen in the animal feed so that it remains sealed and airtight.
You also need heat-reflective silage wrap so the animal feed doesn’t lose nutrients and avoid damage. You also need to consider the quality and durability of the silage wrap. Choose grass silage film that can maintain the quality of your animal feed. The use of grass silage does have various benefits, but some disadvantages need to be minimized.
Advantages of Grass Silage
The advantages of grass silage are as follows:
Nutrition Preservation
Plants and grass that are preserved into grass silage can retain more protein, nutrients, and vitamins than when making animal feed in the form of straw. The process of losing nutrients in straw making occurs during harvesting, drying, and processing. Humid areas also often experience wet weather. This condition will cause the loss of nutrients during the washing process by rain or the bleaching process due to the sun.
Losses in the loss of nutritional value in haymaking are as high as fifteen percent when the weather is right for curing and as high as fifty percent or even more when the weather is unfavorable. Most of the loss of animal feed value is caused by broken conditions and missing leaves from plants. Losing excessive leaves during the straw-making process is very unfortunate. This is because the leaves contain about 70 percent – 75 percent protein.
Another content is about 90 percent carotene and also vitamin A in green leaves. The loss of nutrients due to the decay of this silo can be overcome by making grass silage. You can minimize losses when properly silage the grass. You should choose to use the highest quality grass silage film.
You need to train Spanish cattle to consume feed that is preserved in the form of grass silage. If not, then your livestock will consume it in the form of hay. You can start choosing to preserve the green grass into grass silage instead of making it hay. You have to keep in mind one important thing, that high-quality grass silage cannot be made from low-quality plant greens. Apart from ensuring the quality of the grass silage film, you also have to ensure the quality of the plants.
Plan For Bad Weather
Grass silage is the main alternative when the weather is not conducive to making hay as animal feed. Rainy weather conditions pose a threat to the manufacture of good-quality straw. Because the straw-making process requires sunny weather for fast drying. Thus, the best quality grass silage is suitable for periods that are not suitable for the straw drying process.
Weather is indeed a much more important factor in making grass silage to produce grass silage with the best nutritional value. Partially preserved straw should not be turned into grass silage if the weather conditions are bad because such forages will result in poor quality grass silage and poor-quality straw. Farmers should make a proper plan to preserve some of the hay crops into grass silage rather than trying to save the forage as grass silage after cutting it for hay.
Disadvantages of Grass Silage as Animal Feed
Grass silage does have many benefits, but that doesn’t mean there are no drawbacks at all. These disadvantages can be experienced when the use of grass silage is limited by the availability of labor and a considerable investment in equipment. You will need to provide extra labor to silage the grass. You will also need to build a silo as a protection against the possible sidewall stresses.
The equipment used to make grass silage is also quite expensive, so you have to consider the availability of costs and budget. You also need to factor in the additional costs involved in purchasing preservative or grass silage film. It is quite complex is the difficulty in controlling the water content of the forage.