Silage testing helps farmers understand forage quality and supplement animals with the appropriate rate of concentrates to meet dietary requirements and performance targets.
Silage testing allows the farmer to supplement animals with the appropriate rate of concentrates.
Allows for decisions to made on achieving dietary requirements depending on the stock type to be fed.
Planning for future production is enhanced by the current results.
It is important to do silage testing so that you know the quality of your current fodder and you can plan for improvements if required going forward.
This is an ICP-MS test including elements calcium, potassium, phosphorous, magnesium, sodium, iodine, sulphur, iron, zinc, manganese, selenium, molybdenum, cobalt and copper with result status band displayed.
Provides results including dry matter, pH, ash, NDF, ME, starch and crude protein, with comparisons to average values.
Feed evaluation helps farmers understand silage quality and feeding value so they can make better nutrition and supplementation decisions.
Select silage from the different batches you want to test, keeping the target stock requirements in mind.
See the sampling guidance to make sure you follow the correct silage sampling procedure.
Collect the samples and send them on to FBA Laboratories for professional silage analysis.
