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.