A large audience watched the prize-giving held on the stand of the French agricultural magazine "Terre-net".
The crop processing technology known under the brand name SHREDLAGE® originates in the USA and is a pioneering form of maize silage treatment used by an increasing number of dairy farmers in regions with not much grassland. Typically maize is chopped at a longer chop length of 26 to 30 millimetres and processing the crop using the SHREDLAGE® cracker technology is key to the entire process. The intensive conditioning of the material increases the surface area of the chopped product many times over in a way that is designed to significantly improve bacterial fermentation after ensiling and above all during digestion in the cow's rumen. The aim of this process is to substantially increase the structural effects of maize silage in the rumen while simultaneously adding to the availability of the starch contained in all plant parts, which could lead to an increase in milk yields. In addition, the rumen-friendly silage structure is believed to improve the health of the herd.
