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About SlurryBugs
"SlurryBugs & Booster" is a unique bacteria and micronutrient formulation which bring together soil-originating bacteria with essential micro-nutrients which work together to sustain a maximised microbial activity in slurry tanks.
Typically slurry is rich in organic waste (macro-nutrients) but deficient in micro-nutrients. Yet it is micro-nutrients that are required by aerobic bacteria such as “SlurryBugs” in order to divide and thrive in slurry.
“SlurryBooster” was formulated to solve this micro-nutrient deficiency problem in slurry by providing the SlurryBugs with the micro-nutrients they require to achieve metabolism of ammonia and to populate the slurry lagoon at a significantly increased rate.
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The combined action of the specialised blend of naturally-occurring bacteria and enzymes in "SlurryBugs" with our unique micro-nutrient supplement "SlurryBooster" retains 70% of the nitrogen that would normally be lost to the atmosphere as ammonia gas (odour).
The extra phosphate and potassium retained within the slurry also becomes more available for plant growth, which can be seen in the latest trial results with Lancaster university which show a doubled phosphorous content in SlurryBugs treated slurry.
"SlurryBugs & Booster" keeps the organic matter of slurry in a homogenous form which makes the slurry easier to pump and easily taken up into the root structure. As a result, the need for the pit stirring is reduced saving diesel costs and time as crusting and odour are diminished.
By adding the “SlurryBooster” micro-nutrient the bacteriological growth of the "SlurryBugs" and their enzyme production is increased, enabling more urea to be converted into ammonia and then organic Nitrogen.
UREA -> AMMONIA -> ORGANIC NITROGEN
About Optimize Plus
Optimize Plus Silage Inoculant is a newly formulated blend of the original Optimize with the addition of a new "super enzyme". This enzyme more rapidly separates the bound fibre, making the nutrients within available to rumen bacteria, enabling cows to utilise extra nutrients from the same silage. This leads to more energy and in turn increases the throughput of nutrients into the intestine from the rumen.
By this action, this enzyme can consistently increase M.E. levels by 0.5-1 Mj/Kg. The financial value of 0.5Mj/Kg on a 200 cow herd is £24,000 over a winter season.
Recent testing by the Bioparametrics new and more precise method of silage analysis (measuring fermentable NDF levels of the microbial activity in the rumen) found the specific enzyme formulation of Optimize Plus actively opens up the fibre structure of forage, making nutrients more available for digestion, increasing microbial activity and "fermentable NDF" levels.
For more information about the Microbial and Enzyme Technology involved in Optimize Plus please click here.
Using Optimize Silage inoculant
- Ensures rapid stability of forage in Clamp and Trough
- Inhibits growth of spoilage organisms
- Increases dry matter intakes and reduces nutrient losses
- Increases protein concentration in crop available for cow
- Reduces heating problems in silage
- Helps to increase Animal Production
To learn more about how Optimize is used, click here.
Suitable For:
- Grass
- Maize
- Whole Crop
How Optimize works
Following chopping the grass just before the heading day, Optimize silage inoculant is added at low volume application or a traditional rate of 2lts per tonne freshcrop (for information on silage preparation click here). This inoculated forage is then added to the clamp where Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus pumilus act to reduce a number of spoilage organisms, some of which produce mycotoxins, and increase the digestibility of the silage. To learn more about the specific actions of these Bacilli click here. Microbial stimulants are contained within the formulation of Optimize silage inoculant to activate these Bacillus strains since they are supplied in a freeze dried form.
In addition to these Bacillus strains, fibrolytic enzymes are present which degrade complex carbohydrates in plant fibre and tissues. These carbohydrates tend to be the fibre fractions that are relatively indigestible by dairy cows and therefore their action results in improved digestibility of forage fibre.
Optimize contains no Lactobacillus strains in its formulation as this can drive the silage acidity to a pH which inhibits intake by the cow due to high lactic acid levels. The presence of naturally occurring Lactobacillus in the ensiled crop is sufficient to lower the pH from pH 7 to pH 4 at which point the silage is highly stabilised and the Bacillus strains sporulate and in doing so become dormant.
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