Table 7.

Effects of delayed corn silage harvest on growing steer performance (experiment 2)

Item	Treatmentsa
	37% DM	43% DM		SEM	P value
Initial BW, kg	271	271		1.8	0.92
Ending BW, kg	384	375		3.0	0.04
DMI, kg/d	8.2	8.1		0.1	0.93
ADG, kg	1.45	1.33		0.03	0.01
G:F	0.177	0.164		0.001	<0.01
NEm, Mcal/kg DMb	1.73	1.65		0.02	<0.01
NEg, Mcal/kg DMb	1.11	1.04		0.02	<0.01

^aTreatments: steers were fed 88% of either 37% or 43% DM corn silage.

^bNE_m and NE_g were calculated using methodology of NRC (1996) using a tool developed by Galyean (2009) assuming a 625 kg target endpoint.