Inoculants provide the right bacteria in ideal numbers for a fast, efficient fermentation. Lock in nutrients and dry matter so your livestock can produce more milk or meat from every tonne of pasture or crop you ensile. Check out our range of premium inoculants including 1127, 1174, 11CFT, 11C33 and 11G22.
- Give a faster and more efficient fermentation.
- Increase silage energy content (feed value).
- Decrease protein breakdown.
- Improve silage digestibility.
- Increase drymatter recovery.
- Reduce heating, spoilage, shrinkage and run-off.
- Lift palatability giving higher drymatter intakes.
- Reduce silage heating and spoilage at feed-out time
Pasture specific inoculants
11G22 Pasture Inoculant
Enhance grass silage with Rapid React Technology.
11G22 enhances fermentation in grass and cereal silage to deliver improved fermentation and a fermentation acid profile that minimizes aerobic dry matter losses. Feed out in just 7 days.
Strains: Lactobacillus buchneri, Lactobacillus plantarum
1174 Multi-Crop Inoculant
Improves dry matter recovery, retaining more feed
1174 is a multi-crop inoculant designed for use on all silage including cereal, legume, pasture, forage sorghum and maize. 1174 is designed to help improve fermentation, retain nutrient content and enhance digestibility in ensiled forages.
Strains: Lactobacillus plantarum and Enterococcus faecium
1127 Pasture Silage Inoculant
Pasture specific silage inoculant
Pioneer® inoculant 1127 is a pasture specific silage inoculant that improves silage fermentation quality, locking in valuable silage nutrients so you obtain more milk or meat form every tonne fed.
Strains: Lactobacillus plantarum, Enteroccus faecium
Maize specific inoculants
11C33 Maize Inoculant
Rapid React Aerobic Technology in Maize
11C33 improves fermentation efficiency, reducing growth of yeast, mould, reduce heating. A fast-acting strain of Lactobacillus buchneri speeds up aerobic stability.
Strains: Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium
11CFT Maize Inoculant
Revolutionary corn fibre breakdown technology
11CFT is a revolutionary, corn silage designed to improve fermentation, keep pit face cooler for longer, improve fibre digestibility, dry matter intake.
Strains: Lactobacillus buchneri LN40177, Lactobacillus casei 32909
1174 Multi-Crop Inoculant
Improves dry matter recovery, retaining more feed
1174 is a multi-crop inoculant designed for use on all silage including cereal, legume, pasture, forage sorghum and maize. 1174 is designed to help improve fermentation, retain nutrient content and enhance digestibility in ensiled forages.
Strains: Lactobacillus plantarum and Enterococcus faecium
Pioneer Inoculant comparison
| Inoculant | 1127 | 1174 | 11C33 | 11G22 | 11CFT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crop | Pasture | Multi-Crop | Corn | Pasture | Corn |
| Improves fermentation and reduces dry matter loss | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Improves nutrient retention | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Reduce bunker heating | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Helps reduce heating in entire TMR | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Improves fiber digestibility | ✔ |
A quality silage inoculant will improve silage quality by delivering a faster, more efficient fermentation.
They help lock in nutrients and dry matter so your livestock can produce more milk or meat from every tonne of pasture or crop you ensile.
Pioneer® brand inoculants are unique —combining bacteria strains that work together well to improve the initial preservation, the stability and the digestibility of the nutrients in the silage.
Once oxygen free (anaerobic) conditions have been created through compacting and sealing the forage, bacteria will begin to multiply, convert plant sugars to fermentation acid and pH drops preserving the forage as silage.
A lactic fermentation is the most desirable because minimal energy is lost during the fermentation process and lactic acid produces palatable, high feed value silage. Just as cows differ in their ability to produce milk from grass, different bacterial strains vary in their ability to produce lactic acid.
The most desirable strains are those that can convert sugar to lactic acid with minimal energy and drymatter loss. Pioneer® brand inoculants contain bacteria that have been specially selected to give a faster, more efficient fermentation.
