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Feed & Forage Management

Boost feed inventories and better manage feedout. Explore our options below with silage inoculants, feed bunk drone mapping, and Digi-Star TMR Tracker systems. 

Get More From Your Forage

Silage inoculants are a tool to make farming more profitable. You’ll see better nutritional value and palatability which leads to more valuable milk. With minimal dry matter losses, you can do more with what you have.

Silage can be a risky business unless you treat it right

See what happens to silage after seven days with and without SiloSolve Inoculants.

10 to 1 return on investment when using inoculants to control fermentation and retain nutritional value.
*as seen in the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute December 2017 Newsletter.

SiloSolve® Inoculants

The latest in microbial silage solutions from Chr. Hansen facilitate and control the fermentation process to help maintain a high nutritional value
of the ensiled forage.

Science-driven technology provides:

• Reduced Clostridial fermentation
• Excellent fermentation and aerobic stability — even at seven days of ensiling
• Highly-selected strains of bacteria
• Improved feedout

SiloSolve® FC

Purpose
Fermentation Control

Uses
Ideal for a broad range of crops, especially those that may be fed out early and require aerobic stability at feedout

Features
Fast starter, Fast finisher
Oxygen scavenging LAB
Novel L. buchneri strain

Benefits
Fast and efficient fermentation
Improved dry matter retention
Early feedout after 7 days of ensiling
Aerobic stability improvement
Superior mold and yeast inhibition

Strains / Contents
Lactobacillus buchneri LB1819
Lactococcus lactis O224

Crops
Haylage, Small grain silage, corn silage, HMSC/HMEC, Earlage/Snaplage

SiloSolve® MC

Purpose
Microbial Control

Uses
Ideal for a range of crops, especially at lower DM (higher moisture) prone to Clostridial fermentation

Features
Fast starter, Strong finsher
Patented Clostridia inhibition

Benefits
Fast and efficient fermentation
Improved dry matter retention
Reduce undesirable microbial fermentation

Strains / Contents
Enterococcus faecium k20602
Lactobacillus plantarum 6072
Lactococcus lactis SR3.54

Crops
Haylage, Small grain silage, Corn Silage

Biomax®

Purpose
Multipurpose

Uses
Ideal for all crops across a broad range of moistures stored in a variety of structures

Features
Fast starter, Strong finisher
Reduction of Spoilage Organisms

Benefits
Very fast and efficient fermentation
Improved dry matter retention

Strains / Contents
Enterococcus faecium k20602
Lactobacillus plantarum 6072

Crops
All crops and crop types

Silage Inoculant Resources

Inoculant Handling Guide
Download PDF

Porosity: The True Measure of Silage Density
Download PDF

Forget the guesswork about your inventory, use drone mapping

If you’re measuring your feed bunks by hand, or guessing, you’re not getting an accurate understanding of how much feed you have.

Aurox 2D and 3D drone mapping through Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition is accurate down to one inch when measuring the cubic volume of feed piles. You’ll have density data, precise silage inventory tracking and forecasts, better forage planning and staging, increased safety, evaluation of cover and face management, and more.

Aurox 3D model of feed bunks generated by drone for forage inventory measurements on the farm.

“We have been using drone technology for a few years now to accurately estimate our feed inventory. While skeptical at first with the technology,  it has proven to give us a more accurate reflection of what feed is truly in storage. It helps build our confidence in the technology and helps us make better decisions. “

Steve Kayhart

Kayart Brothers Dairy

Man sitting at computer looking at forage management software

Feed exactly what your herd needs with Digi-Star

Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition is a Digi-Star distributor and service provider. We work with Digi-Star TMR Tracker systems, an easy-to-use Windows-based program, to measure the dry matter and moisture in feed, generate detailed reports on feeding data, and manage the transfer of feeding information.

Digi-Star TMR Trackers efficiently and accurately measure feed usage for comparison with set rations.

TMR tracker logo in yellow with green cow icon

What sets Digi-Star apart

The Ration Created

Input ingredients, track costs, easily adjust dry matter values, get ingredient usage reports, and more.

The Ration Fed

Feed just the right quantity with inventory monitoring and forecasting with predicted feed re-order dates.

The Ration They Ate

Understand what was fed versus what was consumed by viewing feed refusal tracking and other data, and adjust to feed just what your herd needs.

Contact us to develop feed solutions for your operation.