Dave
If you reread what I said. It is being used as a feed balancer.
regards
Ian Buckingham
New Zealand
Gneisers wrote:
> Yes many (over 50%) of NZ
>
>>dairy farms are now using maize (corn) silage and some palm leaf kernel,
>>but there are conflicting figures being thrown round on the economics of
>>all these in the NZ system.
>>I do believe they have a place in the NZ grass based system, but more as
>> a feed balancer then as a feed.
>>
>>regards
>>Ian Buckingham
>>
>
> What Kiwi farmers don't get is that corn silage is a perfect marriage to
> pasture intake. Pasture is high in protein roughly 26% which is well above
> what the cow needs. She must then divert energy (which could be used to
> produce milk) to excrete that excessive protein. By supplementing pasture
> intake with a small amount of corn silage (preferably the new modern corn
> silage varieties, Jungs Highly Digestible Silage is the one we use),
> energy and fiber are introduced into the rumen to dillute that high
> protein, increase the rumen bugs, so cows more efficiently utilize that
> pasture intake.
>
> Corn silage is a companion to pasture intake, rather than some drought
> insurance fill the gap feeding strategy.
>
> Dave G.
> WisCOWsin
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