Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of EM on the consumption, nutritive value and digestibility of corn forage (Zea mays L.) processed into corn silage after harvesting at two growth stages. Stage 1 silage contained 25 percent dry matter and stage 2 silage, harvested nine days later, contained 37 percent dry matter. The first experiment involved feeding trials with sheep and ...

Forage type and management influences the nutritional quality and fatty acid composition of ruminant milk. Replacing grass silage with red clover (RC; L.) silage increases milk fat 18:3-3 concentration. Red clover has a higher polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity compared with grasses, which has been suggested to decrease lipolysis and . The present study characterized the abundance and fatty acid...

Inadequacy of feed resources as well their low nutritional quality especially during the dry season subject animals to stress. The nutritive value can be improved for enhanced utilization by rumen microbes optimum growth treating with non-protein nitrogen sources. Conservation grasses and other herbage minimize loss in nutrient composition achieved through ensilage. experiment was conducted eva...

introduction using agricultural-industrial waste is one way to overcome the shortage of animal feed. potato is one of the most important products in the world after rice, wheat and maize. potato pulp is a by-product which remains after extraction of starch, and can be used as animal feed. because of the high moisture content of the potato pulp, silage is the best way to maintain it. however, it...

The fundamental reaction which takes place in the process of ensilage is the conversion of a proportion of the soluble carbohydrates present to lactic acid. This reaction is of such importance that when material of high protein content is being ensiled, it is desirable to add molasses to provide a readily available substrate for the lactobacilli which occur along with coliform organisms in the ...

Pastoral agriculture in New Zealand has a long history of improving the efficiency with which fresh pasture is converted into meat, wool and dairy products. New Zealanders live in a temperate climate where rainfall and pasture growth are the main driving forces in low-input pastoral systems. The process whereby protein in fresh pasture is broken down in the rumen and reassimilated into microbia...

Kura clover (Trifolium ambiguumM. Bieb.) grown in monoculture is difficult to harvest mechanically because of its decumbent growth habit, and legumes in general have poor ensiling characteristics. Our objectives were to assess forage yield, nutritive value, and silage characteristics of kura clover–winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) mixtures to determine usefulness as a silage crop. ‘Cardinal’...