NUTRITIVE VALUE AND PERENNIALITY 0F PASTURE GRASSES

Mineral Composition and Nutritive Value of Some Common Pasture Weeds

Organic dairy farmers often introduce alternative pasture species, such as chicory (Cichorium intybus) and narrow-leaved plantain (Plantago lanceolata), to their swards because of their higher mineral contents, yet they are concerned about the presence of weed species such as docks (Rumex spp.) and dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). The mineral content and nutritive value of both desired and les...

Warm-Season Grasses for Hay and Pasture

Switchgrass, Indiangrass, and big bluestem are warmseason grasses that are a suitable alternative for summer pasture in Iowa. Their advantage over cool-season grasses such as bluegrass, bromegrass, and orchardgrass is their ability to produce during midsummer. These warm-season perennial grasses start growing in late spring as air and soil temperatures increase. Leaf growth often occurs in earl...

Photosynthesis and Nutritive Value in Leaves of Three Warm-Season Grasses before and after Defoliation

Variation in the nutritive value of forages with maturity has been extensively researched (Buxton and MerForage yields are influenced by plant response to defoliation. We tens, 1995; Sollenberger and Cherney, 1995) and shifts examined the photosynthesis and nutritive value of first (first leaves) in proportions of leaf and stem during maturation of and third (third leaves) fully expanded leaves...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Nutritive Value of Rice