How many jin of silage can one mu of wheat generally yield?

Silage is a common storage technique that can preserve wheat straw as feed, with a maximum storage time of up to one year. So how many jin of silage does one mu of wheat yield?

1. How many jin of silage does one mu of wheat yield?

One mu of wheat silage yields about 2 tons. Straw feed is scarce in winter, so more and more farmers choose to store straw feed for feeding cattle and sheep in autumn and winter during the autumn harvest. Silage technology can preserve the nutrients in the straw perfectly, and cattle and sheep love to eat it and grow quickly.

2. Advantages and benefits of using fermented silage straw as feed

1. Silage can reduce the loss of nutrients and improve feed utilization. Generally, when hay is sun-dried, nutrient loss can sometimes reach more than 40%, while after ensiling, nutrient loss is only 3%-10%, and it is especially effective at preserving vitamins.

2. Silage fermented with probiotics can also eliminate many parasites carried by the raw material (such as corn borers and stem borers) as well as harmful bacterial flora. Silage feed is soft and juicy, with a sweet-and-sour, aromatic smell and good palatability; during fermentation, a large amount of lactic acid is produced, so it smells sweet and sour, is soft and juicy, and has good palatability. All kinds of livestock like to eat it, and it also stimulates the secretion of digestive glands in livestock. The probiotics in it can regulate the balance of the animal's intestinal flora and enhance the appetite of poultry and livestock, increasing intake by more than 20% compared with unfermented straw, and it also has a good effect on improving the digestion of other feeds in the livestock's daily ration. Silage is one of the effective and inexpensive ways to preserve the nutrients of green feed.

3. Silage raw materials come from a wide range of sources. Various green feeds, green crop straws, melon vines and vegetable seedlings, high-moisture grains, distiller's grains and residues, etc., can all be used to make silage feed; the production of silage feed is not affected by season or weather; the production process is simple and requires little labor; compared with preserving hay, making silage feed takes up less space and is easy to store; silage raw materials generally can be taken out to feed livestock after 3-5 days of sealed fermentation. Well-preserved silage feed can be stored for more than half a year. Under normal circumstances, straw silage fermented with probiotics can complete the fermentation process in 3-5 days, and then it can be taken out for use. Whether the quality of silage feed is good or bad, and whether it can be fed, can be judged from three aspects: smell, color, and touch. Generally, good-quality silage has a sour aroma, is green or yellow-green in color, feels loose in the hand, has a soft texture, and is slightly moist.

Wheat silage can preserve straw very well and is used to feed cattle and sheep. It is a very common storage technique that can keep wheat straw for longer.