Agrisile.com

Your Trusted Partner in Silage Protection and Preservation

Who We Are

At Agrisile.com, we are dedicated to providing high-quality silage protection solutions that help livestock farmers and anaerobic digestion plants optimise their feed preservation. With years of experience in the industry, we understand the challenges faced by modern farmers in maintaining silage quality, reducing waste, and ensuring maximum nutritional retention. Our expertise and commitment to innovation make us a trusted partner for those seeking the best in silage protection.

Our goal is simple: to supply premium products that enhance silage storage, improve efficiency, and contribute to the overall success of farming operations. By combining research-backed solutions with top-tier customer service, we ensure our clients receive the best possible results.

The Products We Supply

At Agrisile.com, we offer a range of high-performance silage protection products designed to minimise spoilage, prevent oxygen infiltration, and enhance the preservation of valuable feed. Our product range includes:

1. SilO2block® Oxygen Barrier Film 100µm

One of our flagship products, SilO2block®, is a high-performance oxygen barrier film designed to significantly reduce oxygen permeation into silage clamps. Unlike traditional silage covers, SilO2block® features a multi-layer design that provides superior protection against oxygen ingress, ensuring better fermentation and reduced spoilage. Available in a huge range of sizes 10m - 48m wide and up-to 400m long!

2. Standard PE Silage Sheeting 150µm

We supply durable, high-quality silage sheeting that acts as a protective layer against external elements, including UV exposure, rain, and wind. Our sheets are designed for longevity and offer excellent tear resistance, making them ideal for long-term silage storage.

3. Silage Sidewall Film 150µm

Designed to protect the walls of silage clamps, our sidewall films provide an additional layer of defence against oxygen and moisture infiltration. This product is essential for maintaining overall silage integrity and reducing spoilage at the edges, as well as protecting your concrete walls.

4. Silage Nets and Gravel Bags

To further secure silage clamps, we provide silage protection nets and gravel bags. These accessories help to keep covers in place, reducing the risk of damage from wind or animals. Our nets are UV-resistant and designed for durability, ensuring long-term use.

5. Silage Additives and Inoculants

Proper fermentation is key to high-quality silage. Our range of silage additives and inoculants promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria, improving fermentation and extending the storage life of silage. These products help maximise the nutritional value of feed, ensuring better outcomes for livestock.

6. Silage Rings

Easily handled, easily stored away neatly, good weight distribution are just some of the benefits of using Silage Rings on your clamps - No loose gravel mixed in with your silage from burst gravel bags!

Our Values

At Agrisile.com, our values guide everything we do. We are committed to delivering quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. Here’s what sets us apart:

1. Quality Assurance

We understand that silage is a valuable resource, and protecting it requires the best materials available. That’s why all our products undergo rigorous quality testing to ensure durability, effectiveness, and superior performance. When you choose Agrisile.com, you can trust that you are getting the best solutions for your farm.

2. Innovation and Research

The agricultural industry is constantly evolving, and we strive to stay ahead by investing in the latest research and technology. Our products are designed based on scientific advancements in silage preservation, ensuring that farmers get the most effective and efficient solutions.

3. Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility

We recognise the importance of sustainability in modern farming. Our products are designed to reduce silage waste, lower plastic usage, and improve overall feed efficiency. By minimising spoilage, we help farmers reduce their environmental impact while improving productivity.

4. Customer Focus

Our customers are at the heart of our business. We provide expert advice, personalised support, and reliable service to ensure that every farmer gets the best out of our products. Whether you need guidance on silage covering techniques or help choosing the right product, we are always ready to assist.

Benefits of Using Our Products

Using Agrisile.com’s silage protection solutions provides a range of benefits that directly impact the quality of silage, farm efficiency, and overall profitability. Here’s how our products can help:

1. Improved Silage Quality

Oxygen exposure is the biggest threat to silage quality, leading to spoilage and nutrient loss. Our SilO2block® oxygen barrier film and sidewall protection solutions minimise oxygen ingress, ensuring optimal fermentation. The result is high-quality silage with better digestibility and nutritional value.

2. Reduced Waste and Cost Savings

Silage spoilage can lead to significant financial losses. With our advanced covering systems, farmers can reduce waste, ensuring that more of their feed remains usable. This translates to lower feed costs and higher profitability.

3. Enhanced Livestock Performance

Better silage means better feed for livestock. High-quality silage contributes to improved animal health, increased milk production, and better weight gain in beef cattle. By preserving essential nutrients, our products support overall livestock performance.

4. Long-Lasting Protection

Our silage sheets, nets, and films are designed for durability and long-term use. Made from high-quality materials, they provide excellent resistance against UV radiation, extreme weather conditions, and mechanical damage, ensuring reliable protection season after season.

5. Easy Application and Handling

We understand that farm operations require efficiency. Our products are designed to be easy to handle and apply, saving time and effort during silage covering. SilO2block®, for example, is lightweight and flexible, ensuring a snug fit over silage clamps with minimal hassle.

6. Environmental Benefits

Reducing silage waste not only benefits the farm’s bottom line but also helps the environment. By preserving more feed and using high-efficiency barrier films, farmers can lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with spoiled silage decomposition. Additionally, our durable materials mean less frequent replacements, reducing overall plastic waste.

Why Choose Agrisile.com?

When it comes to silage protection, choosing the right supplier is crucial. At Agrisile.com, we combine industry expertise, high-quality products, and exceptional customer service to provide the best solutions for farmers. Here’s why we are the preferred choice for silage preservation:

• Proven Effectiveness: Our products are backed by research and tested to ensure maximum efficiency in preserving silage quality.

• Comprehensive Range: From oxygen barrier films to silage additives, we offer a complete range of solutions tailored to different farming needs.

• Expert Support: Our team is always available to provide advice, technical support, and recommendations to help farmers make the most of our products.

• Commitment to Sustainability: We prioritise eco-friendly solutions that help reduce waste and promote responsible farming practices.

• Direct sales line: Bringing the highest quality products to the end customer without the high overhead costs of area managers, sales reps, local retailers etc. All products shipped direct to farm anywhere in the UK or Ireland - Compare our prices to see for yourself!

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Conclusion

At Agrisile.com, we are committed to helping farmers maximise silage quality, reduce waste, and improve overall farm efficiency. With our industry-leading products, including SilO2block® oxygen barrier film, durable silage covers, and effective silage additives, we provide comprehensive solutions for superior silage protection.

By choosing Agrisile.com, you are investing in better feed preservation, enhanced livestock performance, and long-term savings. Explore our range of products today and discover how we can help you achieve the best results for your farm

Why use silage additive? Dr. MB Salawu

I chose this topic because it is a question I get asked by most farmers. With so many products to choose from and with most not doing what they claim they will do, I am not surprised by farmers reluctance to use them.

Ruminant Specialist (Dr. MB Salawu) is highly experienced and a hands-on professional with very strong understanding of ruminant’s production, nutrition and fertility management. He has previous experience of research/ teaching (in UK and USA), consultancy (in UK) and over 3 years of direct on-farm work in the UK.

He has an excellent track record and he is a well-known face in UK farming community, regularly invited as guest speakers in farmers meetings and to contribute to farmer’s journals. He has also spoken at several international conferences all over the world and has numerous publications in peered review journals and farming press.

We asked Dr MB Salawu to provide us with some insights in the use of silage additives and he was kind enough to enlighten us with the following:

It is almost impossible to make good quality silage without some form of intervention. The consequences of bad weather at harvest are for example unavoidable. However, measures should be taken to prevent avoidable consequences like mycotoxins, loss of nutrients, fermentation by bad bugs, aerobic instability etc…

Why use silage additive?  

I chose this topic because it is a question I get asked by most farmers. With so many products to choose from and with most not doing what they claim they will do, I am not surprised by farmers reluctance to use them. This is however a problem that is peculiar to UK because in mainland Europe and in big corporate farms around the world silage additives are generally accepted as a must to use.  

When I therefore get asked the question of, why silage additive? I start my response by asking the farmer 2 questions:  

1. If they know why different forages are being ensiled and  

2. If they understood the complex processes that takes place during ensiling.  

Of course, every farmer knows why they are ensiling their forage. However, only very few know the processes that takes place during the different stages of ensilage. And, most if not all of those that understood these processes, would be using one form of silage additive or the other. I will throw more light on why forages are ensiled and the process of ensiling in future posts.  

To therefore appreciate why we use silage additives, we need to know why we are doing it and the processes of ensilage. As an independent ruminant specialist with over 20 years of experience working with farmers in UK, I generally ask farmers to use silage additive. Part of my reason for this is because I want them to get the best out of their homegrown feeds. Silage is also the cheapest feed and the only feed that most farmers have full control over. So, why risk leaving the process of fermentation or ensilage to chance?  

You are using silage additive because if you use the right one, they do work. A good silage additive can make what could have turned out as bad silage into an average silage. An average silage into a good silage. A good silage into an incredibly good silage and finally, an incredibly good silage into an excellent silage. So, farmers that consistently make good silage without an additive would have made an incredibly good or what could be an excellent silage if they use the right type of silage additive.  

I have also had silage additive been labelled as an insurance. I personally do not completely agree with that qualification partly because it could be seen, like most insurance, a waste of money. With the right type of silage additive, there is always a return on investment. These returns have been quantified monetarily by many promoters of silage additives to be between 1: 4 and 1:7. Factors like the weather, contamination with soil/ muck, contractor, delayed harvest etc, some of which are beyond the farmers control can make it almost impossible to get it right. For this reason, my advice to farmers is to use the right type of silage additive.  

The right type of silage additive can be inoculant or acid or salt preservatives. What they must all have to qualify them as being right is their capacity to improve the feeding value and most importantly, improve aerobic stability during feedout.  If you wish to find out more about Ruminant nutrition please visit:

http://www.ruminantnutrition.com/

http://www.ruminantmanagement.com/

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Reflection & Pre-Silage Season Preparation

It’s here again!! No sooner have we passed the short dark days of winter, then we had the brighter spring season with all hands on deck for lambing and calving, and suddenly preparations for silage season must begin.

It’s here again!! No sooner have we passed the short dark days of winter, then we had the brighter spring season with all hands on deck for lambing and calving, and suddenly preparations for silage season must begin.

As with most things, planning for an upcoming event is aided by first starting with a little reflection on how last year went. Beginning with the harvesting phase - was the crop cut at its optimum level hitting the “sweet spot” between quantity and quality? Did the weather window allow for efficient wilting? Did you use an additive best suited to address your biggest concern at the time, whether it be fermentation or stability? Would it be the right choice for this year again? Did the contractor provide an efficient service from mowing at the optimum height - through correct chop length, to matching clamp filling speed and the best compaction possible? Were all gate posts still intact?? These are just some of the questions we look back on to try and improve for the season ahead, always striving to make the next year a better one.

With regards to the storage phase - were you happy with compaction? Did you monitor DM losses and have a plan of how best to reduce this? Do you think the clamp sheet used was the best choice for the job? Do you need to order more gravel bags or silage rings to hold the sheet in place? Silo2Block 7 layer oxygen barrier sheets are one of the best on the market with very very low oxygen permeability compared to the traditional black sheets. It also cuts out the need for a separate “cling film” sheet as it performs the role of two sheets in one. If you wish to find out more about these sheets and other products for your silage storage prior to the season ahead, please don’t hesitate to look at our shop www.agrisile.com or contact us at info@agrisile.com for further information and we will be happy to help with anything that we can.

It’s well worth the time to sit and create a structured plan and set some objectives for this coming silage season in advance because silage is a losing process…”once you start cutting, you start losing” everything possible has to be done to improve silage quality during every stage of the process.

The UK weather has a great deal of influence in terms of silage quality year on year. After a very wet end to last winter we have gone to the other extreme and had a very dry end to spring, with lack of rain at a crucial time for grass growth its currently looking like first cut quantity will be down considerably. However, we would hope that the impact is lessened as the feed quality should be better given the hours of sunshine we’ve seen. We are wishing everyone a prosperous season ahead and here’s to everyone meeting their silage making objectives this summer.