TABLE 9.

Effect of microbial inoculation and storage length on the nutrient composition and yeast counts of whole-plant sorghum-sudangrass silage in experiment 2.

Item1	DM, % as fed	DM Recovery, % DM	Ash, % DM	WSC, % DM	EE, % DM	CP, % DM	Sol.CP, % CP	NDF, % DM	Starch, % DM	NDF disappearance, % NDF	Yeast, log CFU/g
d 14
CON	34.6	98.4	4.7	2.8	2.3	7.1	49.3	62.4	4.7	20.2	3.0
LBLD	33.7	97.4	4.6	2.2	2.6	7.0	50.4	61.1	4.2	21.4	1.4
d 28
CON	33.8	96.9	4.4	3.6	2.3	6.8	57.5	61.8	3.8	24.9	2.9
LBLD	34.2	98.2	4.7	2.0	2.6	7.0	51.6	60.5	4.5	18.5	0.6
d 56
CON	35.0	99.2	4.4	3.1	2.4	7.2	53.4	59.7b	5.3	19.8	0.0
LBLD	34.2	96.6	5.0	2.5	3.2	7.2	54.0	65.4a	4.8	18.3	0.0
Storage length means
d 14	34.2	97.9	4.6	2.5	2.5	7.0	49.9	61.8	4.5	20.8	2.2y
d 28	34.0	97.5	4.6	2.8	2.5	6.9	54.6	61.2	4.1	21.7	1.8y
d 56	34.6	97.9	4.7	2.8	2.8	7.2	53.7	62.5	5.1	19.0	0.0z
Microbial inoculation means
CON	34.5	98.1	4.5	3.2	2.4	7.0	53.4	61.3	4.6	21.6	2.0
LBLD	34.0	97.4	4.8	2.2	2.8	7.1	52.0	62.3	4.5	19.4	0.7
SEM2	0.71	0.85	0.16	0.58	0.18	0.35	2.08	1.40	0.71	1.95	0.76
P-Value
SL	0.72	0.89	0.64	0.82	0.14	0.68	0.08	0.63	0.44	0.40	0.02
MI	0.47	0.29	0.08	0.06	0.01	0.87	0.41	0.39	0.85	0.18	0.05
SL × MI	0.58	0.10	0.14	0.63	0.40	0.83	0.20	0.03	0.62	0.17	0.33

^a,bMeans with different superscripts within the same day denote an effect of microbial inoculation within that day.

^y,zMeans with different superscripts denote differences among storage lengths.

¹MI: effect of microbial inoculant (50 ml of distilled water or 300,000 CFU/g wet forage of L. plantarum DSM 21762, L. buchneri DSM 12856, and L. diolivorans DSM 32074 [Provita Supplements Inc., Mendota Heights, MN]); SL: effect of storage length (14, 28, and 56 d).

²Greatest standard error of the mean.