Comparison on the newly developed silage inoculant (Lactobacillus plantarum NLRI 401) for whole crop rice silage

摘要

In 2007, approximately five million tons of rice was produced in Korea, but the consumption of rice has decreased.The government has been considering the matter from many angles and farmers havealso been considering the problem.A relatively new method of wrapping a large round bale with stretch‐wrap plastic films to make silage is an increasingly popular means of preserving forage.However, it is difficult to make good silage from whole crop rice due to low water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) content at harvest ( Cai,2007).Lactic acid bacteria play a key role in making silage from forage, and lactic acid bacteria selected from good silage could be expected to be suitable inoculant for making good silage.