Molasses is used in silage making primarily as a fermentation aid due to its high sugar content, which promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria that enhance the fermentation process. It helps to improve the silage's nutritional quality by increasing its energy content and palatability for livestock. Additionally, molasses can aid in preserving the silage by reducing spoilage and improving the overall stability of the feed during storage.
It's the concentrated amount of urea that will kill, not the diluted amount that is added to silage. Urea will be diluted as it is added to silage, thus making it not toxic and edible for cattle to eat.
If the silage is exposed to any amount of oxygen, there is high potential for spoilage. When silage is spoiled, it cannot be used for livestock. Thus silage cannot be stored just anywhere, it must be stored in such a way that no oxygen is able to get into it. That enables the anaerobic bacteria to do their job and keep the silage as unspoiled as possible.
Silage is high-moisture and high-nutrient, which makes it optimal for feed (but is easily spoiled if oxygen is allowed into the storage silo) Silage is also used in anaerobic digestion, where the silage is fed to anaerobic digesters such as Methanosarcina and A. wodii to harvest biogas, which can be then used to generate electricity and heat.
Sulfur is not removed from molasses. If you have seen molasses bottles that say "unsulphured" (old-fashioned spelling), it means that sulfur dioxide was not used in processing the molasses. Most molasses today is unsulfured.
Making rum.
The spelling "silage" is used for livestock feed made from fermented alfalfa, oats, or maize.
In a silage pit or as bales
Molasses is used in mortar primarily as a plasticizer, which helps improve the workability and consistency of the mixture. It can enhance the adhesion properties and reduce the water requirement, making the mortar easier to apply. Additionally, molasses can contribute to the longevity and durability of the mortar by slowing the curing process, allowing for better bonding and a stronger final product.
Silage making is the process by which green/immature plants are harvested, stored and allowed to ferment for the purpose of feeding the fermented vegetation to livestock. This feed was originally loaded into silos to allow to ferment, but today can also be stored in large sealed plastic bags.
No, treacle is not the same as molasses. Treacle is a British term for a syrup made during the refining of sugar, while molasses is a byproduct of the sugar-making process with a distinct flavor.
Molasses and blackstrap molasses differ in taste, nutritional content, and uses in cooking. Blackstrap molasses has a stronger, more bitter taste compared to regular molasses. Nutritionally, blackstrap molasses is higher in minerals like iron, calcium, and magnesium. In cooking, regular molasses is often used for baking and sweetening, while blackstrap molasses is more commonly used in savory dishes and as a health supplement.
Molasses was important mainly because it was used to make rum.