PolyExcel, LLC.

Nurturite

The concept of the Nurturite product line revolves around using emulsified silicone to treat forages. The goal with First Response is to allow the user greater tolerance to moisture; it’s used at the baler and can be applied as a replacement for prop acid, allowing users to bale hay at higher moistures without dealing with the typical issues they would have with mold and heating. The treated cost per ton is lower than prop acid onhigh moisture hay and the product is not corrosive and will not negatively affect the flavor or smell of the hay.

Raincoat is applied at the swather, designed to provide protection for your forage in the windrow as well. The potential benefits include increased dry matter retention (for alfalfa), higher relative feed value due to increased leaf retention (for alfalfa), protection for alfalfa subjected to rain and/or dew and prevention of mold (all forages).

Applicators have been created specifically to work with the unique demands this product line brings to application, or you can purchase add-on kits that allow the product to work with existing systems. This silicone based product line recently won the 2010 Idaho Commercialized Innovation Award.

Nurturite also has a traditional enzyme based silage product available with a new silicone based concept for silage available this winter. Silage Si is a combination of fermentation enhancing enzymes and silicone designed to improve the fermentation process as well as limit the loss due to oxidation. Silage Si covers a wide spectrum of silages including corn silage, haylage, grass silage and other legume silages. Silage Si is unique in that it protects silages under both high and low moisture conditions.

For more information on the Nurturite product line, please contact Eddie Toms at 763-244-5972 or email him at eftoms@visi.com.