New berry processing evaluation increases the status of Sorghum in milk nutrition

Watertown, Wis. – New research results have heated up an update for the metric of the berries Processing Score (BPS), which determines the adequacy of berry processing in Sorghum Silage. Thanks to the latest study to check the dynamics of the strength of strength after processing and after the distance from Sorghum, the decisive factors of BPS have been updated in order to take this relationship into account more precisely. The project was previously measured as a percentage of the strength, which led through a 1.7 mm screen, and conducted important scientists from Texas A & M University, the University of Wisconsin Madison and Rock River Laboratory, Inc. to update this standardized measurement to a 2.36 mm screen screen.

“This step in the BPS understanding has the potential to radically improve the absorption and use of Sorghum within milk rations,” said Katie Raver, specialist from Rock River Laboratory Animal Nutrition and Field Support. “The expansion of the sieve from the earlier value of 1.7 mm – which was too restrictive for halved and quartered berries – to 2.36 mm in size, a good barometer results in that the berry is cracked and the door opens for further fermentation.”

Changes in the sieve sizes do not seem to be so exciting, but the cousin of BPPS – Kernel Processing Score (KPS) – would say something else. The introduction and the regular use of KPS by a large part of the dairy industry to determine adequate core element in maize silage has made the significant improvement of harvest management and the digestibility of the corn silage in milk animals since the first time.

In combination with the beginning of new kernel processor technologies such as the new Durracut processor from Scherer Inc. For inclusion in the harvesting devices, this BPS update has impressive options. Compared to the use of KPS, the digestibility of the strength in situ is increased by 20 to 40 units in a sociable care, which leads to a rough estimated return of $ 8 per ton. Before the berry processing equipment, Sorghum producers ate the soft dough at an early stage and sacrificed both potential tonnage and strength. In return, they only recorded 20 percent of the strength of the plants in the harvest, and only 10 percent were available to the cows. This strength of the strength – about £ 2.5 – means about 50 cents per capita and day in lost nutritional value. A BPS over 50 percent with the 2.36 mm screen is the new goal with which the producers and harvesting can begin with benchmarking and improve their harvest.

“The first results of our study are very promising,” said Raver. “About 66 percent of the strength in Sorghum Silage, which is fermented for three months, is digestible after seven hours in the rumen.”

While the results of the project are promising, data acquisition takes – including information on interactions with hybrids and management. Juan Piñeiro from Texas A & M, Luiz Ferraretto from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Rock River Laboratory team hope to include another 100 samples that continue to rate the connection between strengthability and processing. The current recommendations are based on over 300 advertising and research samples.

As milk producers in dry regions of the United States, the challenges with other watercasters are opposed to constantly developing care technology and research in order to offer opportunities for the further replacement of the corn silage through this water -hugging harvest. One step forward in the berry processing and the evaluation of this key to harvest could be a big leap for the harvest and ration efficiency for these dairies.