Frank Brüsemeister wrote in message
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Hi!


there is a lot of whole crop silage in the UK and probably Europe on
whole-crop silages. In the UK there are pretty popular in those
areas
where we are at the limit of Maize growing. Not sure how much is on
the
web but the two magazines that are most likely to cover whole crop
are

Thanks a lot for those adresses, I'll check them.
But in UK whole-crop silages are usually harvestet in a quite late
stage of
maturity. Silages in UK have dry matters above 50% and are usually
treatet
with urea for better conservation.

I suspect that this may vary. In the North West where we can have sixty
inches of rain a year ripening grain can be a bit problematic some
years, so we may well take the crop at a lot lower dry matter than they
would in the South East of the country.

Contrary in nothern europe (i.e. northern germany in my case) silages
are
harvestet in the state of dough ripeness, that means they have dry
matters
of about 30% or 40% and are ensiled without urea.
But mayby the results of the UK-researches are transferable.

certainly I would check


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