Early Sile

Early Sile is a bacterial and enzyme based inoculant treatment for all silages and high moisture grains. Treatment of forage with Early Sile results in a rapid lactic acidification of the crop, reducing the pH to stabilize the silage with maximum nutrient retention for optimum feed value.

Ensiling

Ensiling is one of the commonest methods of preserving fresh forage and high moisture grains until feed out. Unfortunately this process incurs significant losses in feed value even where good management is employed in silage making and storage. Such losses typically range from 5-40% depending upon technique and circumstance.

Producers frequently overlook this loss because it is difficult to measure and may have inadvertently become "accepted" as inevitable for many seasons. Even those who run out of silage before the next harvesting season rarely consider the previous season’s losses as a major reason for their current shortage.

The route to good silage making with minimum nutrient loss is a rapid drop in the pH of the silage, thereby minimizing

• Dry matter and energy losses
• Protein solubilization
• Heat bound protein

Early Sile biological silage additive is a complete microbial systems reperesenting the latest generation of silage inoculants.

Early Sile has been designed for use over the widest possible range of forage types and comprises four major features

Multiple Strains of Lactic Acid Bacteria

The production of the best quality silage depends upon the action of lactic acid bacteria rapidly converting sugar in the crop into lactic acid. Early Sile delivers 100,000 cfu/g or forage of silage specific strains of the species Pediococcus pentosaceus, Pediococcus acidilactici and Lactobacillus plantarum. The strains have been selected to grow over the entire ensiling pH range. They are formulated to rapidly ferment a wide range of sugars into only lactic acid to drop the pH of the crop thereby producing stable silage with minimum nutrient losses.

Propionic Acid Bacteria

Early Sile also contains additional bacteria that produces small amounts of propionic acid resulting in greatly reduced yeast and mold activity in the silage. This helps to improve aerobic stability in the opened silo and extend the bunk life of the silage and total mixed rations (TMR) fed to cattle.

Fibrolytic Enzymes

The level of sugar in some forage crops can be too low to enable the production of enough lactic acid in silage to reach a stable pH, even when utilizing efficient inoculant bacteria. The enzymes in Early Sile can degrade complex carbohydrates in plant fiber and tissues to liberate fermentable sugar for the lactic bacteria. The action of these enzymes also improves the digestibility of the fiber fraction of the silage resulting in greater dry matter intakes and production improvements per ton of silage.

Microbial Stimulant

Freeze dried bacteria are present in a dormant state in silage inoculants and may be slow to become active when added to Silage. Early Sile contains specific components which stimulate rapid activation of the bacteria when added to silage.

Benefits of Treating with Early Sile

Research has demonstrated that dairy cows fed Early Sile treated silage produced 46 lbs more milk per ton of crop ensiled than animals fed untreated silage and 24.2 pounds more milk when compared to other inoculant treatments.

Early Sile is available in granular and water soluble formulations.

Early Sile Granular is packaged in 50 lb bags for application at 1 lb per ton of forage.

Early Sile Water Soluble is available in 50 T, 100T, 200T and 250T packages for application via liquid spray equipment.

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