Silage Covers / Silage Pit Covers

It’s incredibly important to have high quality silage covers in Australia. Why? There are plenty of reasons you should want to improve the quality of your silage. The fact is, preparing silage is a pretty big undertaking. There’s the hiring of contractors, mowing at the right time, not to mention being at the mercy of the weather. So, if you’re going to all that effort, you want to make sure you get the maximum benefit from it.

The best way to ensure you maximise returns on the time and money you put into baling and preparing silage is to have the best silage covers.

Using quality silage films and silage covers doesn’t just deliver long lasting protection. Ultimately, it’s all about the quality of the silage fodder being produced inside. Using high quality silage covers protects your silage from oxygen ingress and excessive heat from the sun, which improves feed conservation. Meanwhile, the black underliner reduces the transfer of light, creating a better environment for fermentation. Ultimately, this means a higher quality of silage, packed with more protein and nutrients.

Silage quality is measured in megajoules of metabolisable energy (ME) per kilogram of dry matter. Generally, 10.5 – 11 ME is considered high quality, and should allows cows to maintain or increase levels of milk production throughout lactation. However, if you drop down to poor quality silage (8.5 ME or less), you’ll need expensive supplements to achieve that result.

So, whichever way you look at it, the quality of your silage matters, and will have a huge financial impact on your operations. So go with high quality silage covers that will help you deliver the best results.