Whitewalker
Member
What volcano is that?
Impressive
Looks like slemish mountain. Been up it with the family
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2019 Silage Season
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Looks like slemish mountain. Been up it with the family
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
If its sealed presumably not as fire would require a source of oxygen.
Is that code for your first cut is pretty hot stuff?
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Did you put any additive on?
had e nuff
Member
- Location
- Durham
Yes, one locally did years ago. Was a sleeper clamp and I think they took the back wall out to get to it.
My dad's got a bad knee from buckraking with a 165. In 1982ish he said something had to change or his knee would collapse, so along came the first 512 Kramer.
Youngsters nowadays are spoilt,up until 96 I regular used the 2wd ford 5000,no spool valves! reach under the seat for the external service button every time to push off.
buffalo_soldier
Member
- Location
- cumbria
Yup, been one or two locally gone up over the years.
Insurance firm on one of them bought one of my clamps one time.
Ducati899
Member
- Location
- north dorset
One went up local to me a couple years back now,think they had one of those bird scaring banger rope jobbys near by though which they blamed it on
No, it's code for ratty meadow grass stuff son bought for heifers and dries
Like fine chopped hay but red hot at forearm depth.
Might cook out lovely .... or not
Had a clamp turn a tobacco brown shade,smelled lovely but zero oompmhh .
Not overly worried about the oompmhh tbh as it's cheaper than straw which is what we fill their guts with at the moment
No as it was like hay and only for dries/youngstock
Wilberforce
Member
- Location
- North Shropshire
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Still not sorted that windscreen I see [emoji85]
- Location
- Northern Ireland
First cut silage analysis
deleted user 837354
Member
Near 74 D value. You are doing something right. Bit dry making the pH a touch high but you won't be the only one to have done that this year given the weather.
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How high is it possible to get D value?
deleted user 837354
Member
I am not sure, I remember seeing 75 as a sort of peak value from which most forages would decline as the cellulose/lignin ratio changes. I suspect it may be possible to find a forage with a very high D value because it doesn't lay down lignin with age maybe.
Crudely speaking, it is a rough estimation of digestibility, in that forage, 74% of the material can be digested, the remainder cannot. I cannot remember how they determine it or how it is calculated, I think it had something to do with the effective ME value as well.
Basically, of all the items you see on a silage analysis, D value is the main ready-reckoner. It will be devilishly hard to breed or select plant varieties or species for better D value and so I suspect most breeders all quote roughly similar values, and they similarly decline in line with plant maturity.
Of course the whole high sugar grass thing was a clever bit of marketing and people lost sight of that even though the tiny bit of soluble carbohydrate in grass is dwarfed by the total ME on offer from the structural carbohydrates in most forages.
- Location
- Northumberland
Happy days -- I thinkYoungsters nowadays are spoilt,up until 96 I regular used the 2wd ford 5000,no spool valves! reach under the seat for the external service button every time to push off.
Remember when a foot throttle was a luxury.