@conference {3672,
	title = {BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Feed value of maize silage in New Zealand - a review},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2016},
	month = {07/2016},
	pages = {100-102},
	address = {Adelaide},
	abstract = {Maize silage is a major dietary component for dairy cows in the USA and Germany with average feeding rates of 2.7 and 4.1 tDM per cow per year respectively (Table 1).
Maize silage usage in NZ has increased over the past two decades. It currently accounts for approximately 6\% of feed energy supplied to the national herd, calculated using national herd energy requirements (based on cow numbers and milk processed 2013/14 in NZ (New Zealand Dairy Statistics 2013/14)) and the amount of maize silage harvested (AIMI 2015).

It is important to establish maize silage feed quality in NZ to better understand its potential to  support pasture based  farms. Published NZ research has measured in-vivo digestibility of maize silage in animal trials (Kirley 1977; Smith 1973); however, the number of trials is limited and they were not performed using standard protocols to allow pooling of data.

The aim of this paper was to compare the nutrient composition of overseas and NZ maize silage to determine if overseas in-vivo energy measurements are applicable to local maize silage and to determine how well NZ maize silage kernel is processed.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Kleinmans JJ and Densley RJ and Hurley T and Williams ID and Calbert F}
}
@conference {41483,
	title = {Advances in maize silage genetics and crop management and the impact on the NZ dairy industry},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {64},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {105-109},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {Significant lifts in profitability have been achieved by New Zealand dairy farmers through the inclusion of increasing amounts of maize silage into a pasture based system. Most of this maize is grown off the dairy unit on farmer owned or leased runoff blocks or by contract growers. While there is still significant scope to improve dairy farm productivity by increasing maize silage input levels, there is considerable opportunity to also improve dairy farm productivity by reducing feed costs through improving maize silage yields, increasing milk output by lifting maize silage nutritional quality and improving agronomic stability of maize silage offering higher yields over a wider environmental range. Traditional plant breeding, genetic engineering and advances in agronomic management all have the potential to impact production potential and profitability of maize silage in New Zealand dairy farm systems. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Densley RJ and Williams ID and Miller DB and Densley DW and Sapienza DA}
}
