Research Article
The Effect of a Silage Inoculant on Silage Quality, Aerobic Stability, and Meat Production on Farm Scale
Table 3
Effect of the treatment with a commercial product BSM on the fermentation characteristics of ensiled corn.
| Parameters |
Unit | Treatments | Standard error | | Control | BSM |
| pH | ā | | | 0.024 |
**
| Total organic acids |
g/kg DM | | | 2.126 |
**
| Lactic acid | | | 1.472 |
**
| Acetic acid | | | 0.797 | 0.116 | Butyric acid | | | 0.055 |
**
| Ethanol | | | 0.606 |
**
| Ammonia N | g/kg total N | | | 2.271 |
**
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*
and ** denote significance at level 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.
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