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Identification & Functionality
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Functions
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Features
- Working
- Quality silage starts with quality grass cut at the correct growth stage to optimize digestibility and yield.
- The aim of preservation is to retain silage quality as close as possible to the grass being harvested and avoiding unnecessary ensiling losses.
- GrasZyme Sugarboost Forage Additive, with its multi-strain homofermentative bacteria (L. plantarum, L. paracasei, P. acidilactici), working at different pH ranges makes GrasZyme SugarBoost highly efficient at dropping pH with the production of lactic acid.
- This silage inoculant gives a rapid fermentation with reduced energy loss and protein breakdown.
- Grass protein is made up of long chains of bound amino acids which is true protein.
- During the fermentation process the chains of amino acids are broken down reducing its benefits, so it no longer acts as a true protein.
- Furthermore, the amino acids can then be broken down to ammonia, which reduces intake and increases the pH.
- The role of GrasZyme Sugarboost is to speed up the fermentation process to ensure 20% less true protein is broken down, making it more available to livestock.
- Benefits
- Increased animal performance.
- Reduced protein breakdown.
- Better intakes.
- Reduction in energy losses from the clamp.
- Higher feed conversion rate.
- Higher digestibility.
- Less silage losses.
- Less effluent.
- Reliable even in low sugar conditions.
- Choosing Graszyme Above the Rest
- GrasZyme SugarBoost has long proven itself and is the go to silage preservation aid for over 30 years.
- This is backed up with findings from research trials undertaken at Agricultural Research Institute NI, Hillsborough, The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), University College Dublin (UCD), Teagasc, Moorepark and National Institute for Animal Nutrition, Belgium.
- Advances in Technology With Graszyme
- The presence of L. paracasei in GrasZyme can produce a fructanase enzyme if sugar levels are low.
- This releases additional sugars from fructans unavailable in conventional silage additives.
- This technology reduces unnecessary plant breakdown and ensures reliability even in difficult low sugar conditions.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Application Rates
Granular Application:
- 20kgs treats 60T of fresh forage
- Add 330g of GrasZyme SugarBoost forage additive to each one ton of forage.
Liquid Application:
- 1kg sachet treats 25T of fresh forage
- Mix each sachet to 25-50 liters of water and apply at 1-2 liters/ton.
Ultra Low Volume Liquid Application:
- 50g bottle treats 50T
- Using appropriate ULV liquid applicator dilute the product for a final application rate from 10ml up to 2 liters/ton.
Technical Details & Test Data
- Change In pH
- Change in pH over time in silages treated with and without GrasZyme.
- Graszyme reduces forage energy losses, retaining this energy for enhanced animal performance.
- Technical Details
Dairy:
- 8 independent dairy trials show a daily milk yield increase of 1 liter and a protein % improvement of 0.09%.
Beef:
- 5 independent trials show an average extra daily live weight gain of 110 grams.
Silage:
- 6 independent trials show a reduction in ensiling dry matter losses of 6.1%. GrasZyme speeds fermentation from 2 weeks to 2 days.
- Trails Details
Dairy Trails:
- Summary of GrasZyme Dairy Trials
- Fresh Crop (at ensiling)
- DM: 17% - 32%
- WSC: 3.1 (Taken from 6 trials)
- Number of trials: 8
Silage DM Intake
(kg/day)Milk Protein
%Milk Yield
(L/day)Untreated 11.3 3.10 22.2 GrasZyme 11.7 3.19 23.2
Beef Trails:
- Summary of GrasZyme Beef Trials
- Fresh Crop (at ensiling)
- DM: 13.6% - 21.0%
- WSC: 1.9
- Number of trials: 5
Silage DM Intake
(kg/day)Liveweight Gain
(Grams/day)Untreated 4.9 590 GrasZyme 5.2 700
Ensiling Trials:
- Summary of GrasZyme Ensiling Losses Trials
- Number of trials: 6
Average Ensiling Losses Untreated 11.80% GrasZyme 5.70%
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging Type
- Available
In a 500T clamp graszyme sugarboost retains an extra 30 tons of silage.