Silage Covers / Silage Pit Covers
High-Quality Covers for Your Silage Pits
If you’re using silage pits, you’ve got a lot of fodder at stake. Don’t cut corners here and make sure you use a high quality silage film product. Our silage covers are all quality assured, using high levels of premium UV stabilisers to suit Australian conditions and are guaranteed for a minimum of 18 months against UV degradation. Our silage pit cover products offer high tensile strength and maintain an excellent oxygen barrier.
Why Choose us for Silage Covers/Silage Pit Covers?
Our silage covers are way more than just plastic sheeting or regular plastic films, rather, they are manufactured from premium quality resin materials in Europe, specific to suit the purpose of silage fodder conservation. Our silage plastic is made specifically for the harsh Australian climate and offer strength and durability to protect and successfully store your silage in optimal conditions, so you are assured of high quality fodder.
Our silage sheet covers or bunker covers come in a range of sizes and specifications to suit your requirements to suit any silage pit size. Manufactured with black inner and white outer layer colour, for minimizing any possible light transfer as well as keeping the temperature levels cooler for optimal feed conservation. Perfect for creating an anaerobic environment, and thereby allowing maximum fermentation and retaining the highest possible nutrient levels.
Silage Covers and the Quality of Silage
There can be significant financial benefits to improving and maintaining maximum quality of your silage fodder. Most animals will be happy with silage that is fed out regardless of the quality. But that doesn’t necessarily mean all silage is equally high in nutritional value. Silage quality is usually measured in megajoules of metabolised energy (ME) per kilogram of dry matter. So, it stands to reason that you would want to deliver high quality silage with a higher energy value, if what you’re feeding them is higher in ME. So, it would make good financial sense to deliver the highest quality silage you can create – right?
High quality silage allows cows to maintain, or even increase, milk production at any stage during lactation. If you use poor quality silage, say 8.5 ME or less, your livestock won’t maintain good milk production and you may need to supplement with something else.
That’s why we recommend our silage covers to aid in the production of high quality silage for your animals. You can achieve better results because our pit covers utilise a clear and lightweight oxygen barrier underliner, with the black and white cover applied on the top. The result is less wastage and higher quality silage at the upper level due to the inclusion of the ‘secondary barrier’ which has a positive effect on oxygen ingress.
Our silage covers are designed to improve the quality of your silage. As most farmers and contractors know, preparing silage is a big job, so if you’re going to all that effort, why not make sure it’s done the best way possible?
Optimal Colours in Silage Pit Covers and Silage Plastic Quality
When choosing silage covers, you might wonder why there are different colour variations out there. Honestly, we wonder too, because the science behind our covers tells us there’s only one set of optimal colours.
Our silage covers are dual coloured, with white on the outside and black on the underside. The theory behind this is simple. The white top side helps to deflect heat away from the ensiled matter. While certainly you need some heat to achieve fermentation, too much heat has a negative effect on your silage. That’s why white is the only colour that should be used for the outer side of silage covers, and science backs this up.
For the underside, black is the optimal colour for decreasing light penetration to the plant matter. Overall, this creates the perfect environment for maximum fermentation, while also providing a cool enough temperature for the silage to be conserved. The result is high quality silage, packed with nutrients and a high level of metabolised energy. It’s perfect for your cows and assisting in a better yield.
So, go with a high-quality silage plastic, that is a ‘purpose specific’ covering film, with a high level UV protection to securely protect your crop. We stock silage covers and silage pit covers in all sizes. Please contact us at our head office today for a quote or any further information
If you’re using silage pits, you’ve got a lot of fodder at stake. Don’t cut corners here and make sure you use a high quality silage film product. Our silage covers are all quality assured, using high levels of premium UV stabilisers to suit Australian conditions and are guaranteed for a minimum of 18 months against UV degradation. Our silage pit cover products offer high tensile strength and maintain an excellent oxygen barrier.
Our silage covers are way more than just plastic sheeting or regular plastic films, rather, they are manufactured from premium quality resin materials in Europe, specific to suit the purpose of silage fodder conservation. Our silage covers are made specifically for the harsh Australian climate and offer strength and durability to protect and successfully store your silage in optimal conditions, so you are assured of high quality fodder.
Our silage sheet covers or bunker covers come in a range of sizes and specifications to suit your requirements to suit any silage pit size. Manufactured with black inner and white outer layer colour, for minimizing any possible light transfer as well as keeping the temperature levels cooler for optimal feed conservation. Perfect for creating an anaerobic environment, and thereby allowing maximum fermentation and retaining the highest possible nutrient levels.
So, go with a high quality, ‘purpose specific’ covering film with a high level UV protection to securely protect your crop. Please contact us at our head office today for a quote or any further information
Silage Cover Specifications Table
| Micron | Size |
|---|---|
| 150um | 12m x 50m | 15m x 50m | 15m x 300m | 18m x 50m | 18m x 300m |
| 200um | 12m x 50m | 15m x 50m | 15m x 300m | 18m x 50m | 18m x 300m |
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