Grassland management & silage

 

Success in grassland management primarily depends on soil fertility. The Effective Microorganisms promote regenerative microorganisms and organisms in the soil. They help to convert organic materials into nutrients that are available for plants and create an environment in which the pathogenic bacteria and pests are removed from their habitat.

 

Effective Microorganisms help to significantly increase soil fertility and increase plants’ growth and resistance. This treatment provides possibilities for organic substances that were gathered during the harvest to benefit plants in the soil again. This causes a reduction in operational costs, while at the same time increasing quality and yield.

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The effects of Effective Microorganisms in grassland.

 

Increases the harvest, while reducing operational costs, because:

  • the health and fertility of the soil is promoted

  • the development of the humus (formation of the clay-humus complex) is increased

  • the biological activity of the soil is vitalised – many worms populate the earth

  • the moisture and nutrient retention capacity of the soil is improved

  • thanks to the quicker warming of the earth in spring, vegetation begins earlier (EM earth is 3 – 4 °C warmer)

  • root growth is stimulated

  • the plants’ level of resistance and the biodiversity are increased

  • thicker turf

  • the soil is pushed back

  • fertiliser costs are reduced

 

Better quality harvest, because:

  • the plants contain more antioxidants and bioactive substances such as vitamins, trace elements, etc.

 

 

 

Use in grassland

 

Spray EM-Solution to improve the soil

Spray EM-Solution to improve the soil

As well as fertilisers with EM slurry, EM liquid manure and EM solid manure, EM-Active, divided over the individual steps, are used in grassland:

 

200 l EM-Active per ha. and year,

e.g. for every four growths, apply 50 l EM-Active per growth. Spray EM-Active in a dilution of 1:5 to 1:10 (EM-Active: water)

 

Time and frequency

Apply the spray solution after each step, preferably in the evening or in the morning (not in strong sunlight).

 

 

 

 

Fertilising with EM slurry or EM liquid manure

to improve the soil

Test at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna have shown that slurry, liquid manure or solid manure that has been treated with EM-Active contain significantly fewer decay materials and thus emits fewer nutrients into the air, which would be lost in this way.

The Effective Microorganisms also active the organisms in the soil.

 

Quantity per ha.:

Just before application, stir 50 l of EM-Active into the EM slurry or EM liquid manure or the solid manure.

During this step, the slurry or liquid manure, which have already been pre-treated with EM-Active, or the solid manure is mixed with EM-Active before being worked into the soil, so that the regenerative microorganisms can quickly establish a stable environment and the slurry becomes a more effective fertiliser. 

 

 

 

 

Use in ensilage

 

 

The ensilage agent, MK Multisil, promotes optimal fertilisation of maize silage, whole grain silage, grass silage and clover-grass silage. It is a yellow-brown liquid with a pH value of 3.3 – 3.8. MK Multisil has been field-tested and leads to appetising, high-energy silage.

The agents in MK Multisil are two strains of lactic acid bacteria (lactobacillus plantarum and lactobacillus casei) and wheat (saccharomyces cerevisiae).

MK Multisil is heterofermentative (creates several fermentation products, such as propanediol and propanol), unlike homofermentative silage agents (which only create lactic acid).

 

 

Effect

MK Multisil helps silage fermentation. It helps lactic acid to form rapidly and enables the pH value to fall more quickly during the silage process, so that the optimum pH value is quickly achieved. Increased formation of lactic acids, acetic acids and propionic acid as well as 1.2 propanediol and 1 propanol improves aerobic stability, which also leads to increased stability for secondary fermentations.

 

 

Instructions

Spray 1 l MK Multisil per m3 silage (maize silage, whole grain silage, grass silage, clover-grass silage, etc.) evenly over the silage.

 

 

Scientific research at the Wageningen Agricultural University (in the Netherlands) has shown that silage treated with MK Multisil:

– contains more lactic acid

– is more stable against secondary fermentations

– achieves the optimal pH value more quickly