Recommended daily feed rates (per head basis)

Pressed Sugar Beet Feed can be fed as part of a TMR, as a concentrate feed or as a forage replacer.

• Milking Cows: Up to 20 (typically 8)kg

• Dry Cows: Up to 4 kg

• Replacement Heifers: Up to 10 kg and up to 50% of the DMI

• Calves (to 12 weeks): Up to 5 kg and up to 50 % of the DMI

• Growing Cattle: Up to 10 kg and up to 50 % of the DMI

• Finishing Cattle: Up to 20 kg and up to 50% of the DMI

• Suckler Cows: Up to 10 (typically 5)kg

• Ewes and Rams: Up to 5 (typically 2-3) kg

• Hoggets and Lamb:s Up to 5 kg or up to 50% of the DMI

DMI = dry matter intake

*If feeding a restricted calcium dry cow ration, please be aware that Pressed Sugar Beet Feed has a relatively high calcium content.

Pressed Sugar Beet Feed is best contracted on a forward basis to ensure supply in the period of production between September and February.

Pressed Sugar Beet Feed should always be stored on a clean and dry concrete base. If fed fresh, Pressed Sugar Beet Feed should be consolidated to exclude air from the load, sheeted with a good quality, clean sheet, and used within 21 days of leaving the factory. Beyond 21 days, Pressed Sugar Beet Feed should be clamped, consolidated to exclude air, and covered with a secured sheet in the same manner as grass silage (see storage tips below). It is advisable to use clamped Pressed Sugar Beet Feed within 6 months.

Storage Tips
• Store on a clean dry concrete base.

• Storage sites should ideally be situated away from open watercourses and designed with a narrow, north facing feed face.

• Pressed Sugar Beet Feed will be hot on arrival. It is best left for 24 hours before sheeting to let heat escape.

• The load should be compacted using a tractor bucket or a hand shovel, to remove air and maintain close contact between the top of the load and the sheet.

• Pressed Sugar Beet Feed can be pitted up to a height of approximately 2m.

• Dressing the surface with salt prior to sheeting will enhance the products preservation. It is recommended to use 3kg of salt per cubic meter.

• Cover with clean, good quality plastic sheets that create an effective oxygen barrier. Evenly weight with Secure Covers and gravel bags or straw bales.

• Ensure the product is completely covered with the sheet, even at the edges, to create an airtight seal.

• Failure to ensile properly may result in mould growth, loss of dry matter and a reduction in the nutritive value of the clamp.

• When feeding starts, only expose 3-4 days’ worth of feed at a time to minimise the clamp area open to the atmosphere. Placing a line of weights on the sheet, as far back as you intend to expose the feed, reduces the risk or air entering the clamp and aids keeping quality.

• Ensure the open face of the silo is kept neat and tidy. The clamp face should never be covered (unless the feed is to be ensiled for feeding at a later stage), as this will create a humid environment which could encourage the growth of moulds and yeast.

• Typical product density is 800kg/m³

• For more detailed information please see the KW Moist Feed handling and storage booklet on our
website.

Pressed Sugar Beet Feed is produced during the processing of Sugar Beet. Once the sugar has been washed out from the beet, excess water is removed from the fibrous residue by passing the material through heavy presses.

Pressed Sugar Beet Feed is a FEMAS assured (or a recognised equivalent), fully traceable, product. Pressed Sugar Beet Feed is listed under number 4.1.8 in the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials.