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	𝑃
		Control 𝑋±SD	BSM 𝑋±SD
pH	—	3.89±0.09	3.71±0.03	0.024	**
Total organic acids	g/kg DM	80.0±4.33	93.3±10.52	2.126	**
Lactic acid		50.3±2.60	61.4±5.88	1.472	**
Acetic acid		29.0±2.16	31.5±4.87	0.797	0.116
Butyric acid		0.4±0.30	0.1±0.11	0.055	**
Ethanol		13.2±2.10	9.3±2.41	0.606	**
Ammonia N	g/kg total N	51.0±10.29	38.0±7.77	2.271	**

* and ** denote significance at level 0.05 and 0.01, respectively.