Nutritional Quality Improvement

Nutritional quality of grass and cereal silage can be improved by mixing with legumes like cowpea (4:1) or by spraying urea solution at the time of ensiling (1% on fresh weight basis, sprayed with l:l matter). Often the green fodder is mixed with molasses and salt to improve the quality of the silage. Commonly 20 kg molasses plus 8 kg salt per ton of green fodder is recommended. The other additives used include the addition of lime stone (0.5-1.0%), sodium metabisulphite, organic acids like propionic and formic acids at 1% level and bacterial cultures like lactobacillus etc.