Sonon, R.N. Jr.Dalke, B.S.Holthaus, D.L.Pfaff, L.Bolsen, K.K.Young, Matthew A.2010-09-172010-09-172010-09-17http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4973This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of grain content on the nutritive value of corn silage. Whole-plant silage dry matter (DM) increased, whereas neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) contents decreased as the level of grain increased from 0 to 65% in the reconstituted, whole-plant, corn silages. Using sheep as a model, voluntary DM intake and DM and organic matter (OM) digestibility increased, but crude protein (CP) and ADF digestibilities decreased linearly as grain content increased from 0 to 52.5%. Our results indicate that the optimum level of grain in whole-plant corn silage to maximize the nutritive value of a high silage-based ration was about 52.5%.BeefCornSilageGrain contentNutritive valueArticle (author version)