Hay preservative and methods for preservation of hay
AssigneeDanstar Ferment AG
InventorsJulien Sindou, Henri Durand
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Abstract
There is provided a method of treating hay for preventing and/or reducing heat damage in high moisture hay and as well to preserve the same, the method including adding to hay a hay preservative including a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of at least one enzyme having a chitinase activity, either alone or in combination with a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of a yeast of the genus Pichia or a bacteria of the genus Pediococcus. There is also provided a method of treating hay for preventing and/or reducing heat damage in high moisture hay and as well to preserve the same, the method including adding to hay a hay preservative including a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of yeast of the genus Pichia.
Claims16
A hay preservative composition comprising an enzyme with chitinase activity and a yeast of the genus Pichia or a bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, wherein the
- chitinase activity is in the range of about 6 U to 250 U per ton of hay to be treated and the amount of either
- Pichia or Pediococcus is 105 to 1015 viable organisms per ton of hay to be treated and wherein the composition is effective to reduce the heat of the hay.
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