Forage inoculants to flex to your goals
Don’t risk poor performance from the largest part of your cow’s diet. Be proactive by selecting ForageMate® inoculants that fit the specific forage types and environment for your operation. Our forage trials demonstrate product effectiveness you can count on. Diamond V® provides solutions that maintain superior standards and consistency to help your cows reach their full potential – expect the same for your forage with ForageMate.
FLEXIBILITY
RESEARCH-BACKED
DEPENDABLE RESULTS
In the pursuit of maximizing production, maintaining herd health, and controlling costs, high-quality forage is essential. Diamond V is proud to offer forage inoculant solutions that uphold superior standards and consistency, helping dairy and cattle producers and their herds reach their full potential with ForageMate.
Find the forage inoculant for your needs
ForageMate® HQ
Quickly Safeguard
Your Silage Quality
Features five proprietary strains of lactic acid bacteria that promotes efficient front-end fermentation.
Crop Types: Alfalfa, Grass, Corn, Small Grain & Sorghum Silage
ForageMate® VS-3
Defense Against Stressed Crops & Storage Conditions
Designed to succeed through challenging fermentations and a wide range of moisture conditions by providing 300,000 colony forming units (CFU)/g of forage crop.
Crop Types: Alfalfa, Grass & Small Grain Silage
ForageMate® AP
Efficient Fermentation Made Easy
A blend of three proprietary lactic acid bacterial strains to promote rapid and efficient fermentation when used on a variety of forage types.
Crop Types: Alfalfa, Grass, Corn, Small Grain & Sorghum Silage
ForageMate® EBL
Economically Enhanced Fermentation & Feed-Out
Combines both lactic acid bacteria and Propionibacterium freudenreichii to reduce mold counts and inhibit yeast spoilage to create aerobically stable silages.
Crop Types: Corn Silage, Sorghum, Earlage & High-Moisture Corn
ForageMate® BP
The Solution for Aerobic Stability
Features lactic acid bacteria, Propionibacterium freudenreichii and L. buchneri to increase front-end fermentation while also maximizing aerobic stability upon feed-out.
Crop Types: Corn, Sorghum, Earlage & High-Moisture Corn
FIND YOUR FORAGEMATE
Connect with a Diamond V representative to determine the best fit for your forage needs.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Today’s high-producing cows require high-quality feed for high levels of production. High feed costs and volatile milk and commodity markets require forage best management practices. Improving forage management practices with an inoculant can be a useful option to help a farm flex to their forage goals.
Forage inoculants enhance fermentation of the harvested crop, such as alfalfa, small grains, grass, corn, sorghum, high moisture corn. They contain specific strains of bacteria to lower the pH of the silage. This creates an acidic environment that inhibits the growth of organisms that can spoil the silage like yeast and mold.
The ForageMate® forage inoculant portfolio offers flexibility and is competitively priced to meet performance and profitability goals. Products are available in water-soluble and concentrated dry granular forms to match application method on farm allowing for flexibility. Products are tested across the United States to prove efficacy in diverse climates and environments. Additionally, dedicated field support continually monitors and tests efficacy in market and in a lab setting.
This broad portfolio offers five products developed specifically for different needs across six types of forage (alfalfa, small grains, grass, corn, sorghum, high moisture corn) allowing for dairy producers to select the product that best fits their needs.
ForageMate® inoculant portfolio effectiveness is backed by trial data and research with dependable results from across the United States.
Trials consistently demonstrate:
- Rapid reduction in pH
- Increased lactic acid production
- Improved dry matter retention
Choose Your Inoculant
Tap into our decision guide to view the entire portfolio for easy alignment to flex to your forage goals.