Re: Barley silage

From: Frank.Mickan@dpi.vic.gov.au
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 12:19:03 EST

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Shane,
I have just placed some (3) new Agnotes relating to whole crop cereal
silage onto the Dept. of Primary Industries website. These should give you
something to digest for a while. They will probably need updating in the
future as we all gain more experience from making cereal silage and when
we can sort out yield vs quality issues for the various species and
cultivars.

Do a Google for the Victorian DPI Notes Information Series/Crops and
Pastures/Cereals/Forage Cereals.

Basically, as John Evens has said, cutting early while in its vegetative
stage (boot/flag leaf stage) will, be best quality and lower in yield but
needs wilting before harvest, a problem due to high yields and difficulty
to wilt at that time of year (maybe not THIS year!).
Avoid cutting in the clear liquid-early milk stage as quality will be
lowish and palatability may be an issue (sugars in the leaves are
converting to starch in the grain kernels at this stage). We suggest
cutting at the late milk, preferably soft dough stage, for optimum quality
and much higher yields. If having to mow and rake, etc. this will result
in much grain loss as will baling.
Cheers for now,
Frank Mickan
Pasture & Fodder Conservation Specialist
Department of Primary Industries, Ellinbank
1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank 3821
Phone: 03 5624 2259
Mobile: 0427 317 471
Fax: 03 5624 2200
Email: frank.mickan@dpi.vic.gov.au
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belindarstevens@bigpond.com
15/08/2006 07:11 PM
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Just wondering what everyones thoughts on the right time to make barley
silage are??

I have been told to wait until it goes slightly milky, but am beginning to
wonder about cutting before any grain begins to form as we seem to loose
alot of leaf at this point.

Will the feed test be that much different?

Shane Stevens
COROWA

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Shane,
 I have just placed some (3) new Agnotes relating to whole crop cereal silage onto the Dept. of Primary Industries website. These should give you something to digest for a while. They will probably need updating in the future as we all gain more experience from making cereal silage and when we can sort out yield vs quality issues for the various species and cultivars.
 
 Do a Google for the Victorian DPI Notes Information Series/Crops and Pastures/Cereals/Forage Cereals.
 
 Basically, as John Evens has said, cutting early while in its vegetative stage (boot/flag leaf stage) will, be best quality and lower in yield but needs wilting before harvest, a problem due to high yields and difficulty to wilt at that time of year (maybe not THIS year!).
 Avoid cutting in the clear liquid-early milk stage as quality will be lowish and palatability may be an issue  (sugars in the leaves are converting to starch in the grain kernels at this stage). We suggest cutting at the late milk, preferably soft dough stage, for optimum quality and much higher yields. If having to mow and rake, etc. this will result in much grain loss as will baling. 
Cheers for now, 
Frank Mickan
Pasture & Fodder Conservation Specialist 
Department of Primary Industries, Ellinbank 
1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank 3821
Phone: 03 5624 2259 
Mobile: 0427 317 471 
Fax: 03 5624 2200 
Email: frank.mickan@dpi.vic.gov.au
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15/08/2006 07:11 PM
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 Just wondering what everyones thoughts on the right time to make barley silage are??
  
 I have been told to wait until it goes slightly milky, but am beginning to wonder about cutting before any grain begins to form as we seem to loose alot of leaf at this point.
  
 Will the feed test be that much different?
  
 Shane Stevens
 COROWA

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