SOILS are usually considered to influence animal nutrition through the quantity and quality of the herbage they produce, so that the sequence is soil-plant-animal. The fact that soil is ingested by grazing animals indicates that a direct soil-animal effect also needs to be considered. Soil is taken in by animals along with herbage, as soil adhering to leaves, as soil on roots, and as earthworm ...

Pasture micro-nutrient concentrations are often deficient for herbage productivity and the health of livestock. The aim this study was to investigate soil content effects on yield three pasture systems North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP): high-sugar grass + legume mix minus nitrogen (N) fertilizer (blue/HSG L); permanent plus N (green/P N); (red/HSG N). locations with high total had a greater slope...

Herbage yield of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) depends on forage management or environmental conditions that change C and N resource acquisition, and endogenous plants factors such as root organic reserves and number of active meristems. The aim of this work is to study the influence of two sowing dates in summer (12 July or 9 August), N fertilization (0 or 100 kg ha(-1)) and/or irrigation appli...

Reduction in herbage production and plant diversity on rangelands on the coastal part of croatia, due to invasion of terpene-rich shrubs has been recorded during the recent period. therefore, there is a strong need to understand ecological relationships between plant and animal components of these shrubby ecosystems. through four consecutive experiments, we investigated the potential of two wel...

Thymus serpyllum (creeping thyme) is a newly introduced medicinal and aromatic plant in Egypt. It was grown hydroponically for this study. The goal to assess the effect of three sandponic media (sand, silica, sand with silica) foliar spraying fulvic acid (without with) on growth, herbage yield, essential oil yield. experiment designed as split plot. main plots involved spraying, while subplots ...

information on quality characteristics of forage species help the range managers to select a suitable grazing program that minimizes the damages to vegetation. water soluble carbohydrates (wsc) -the main photosynthetic products- are stored in various plant parts and are more likely to be consumed when plants require them. in order to investigate the changes of wsc in distinguishable organs in t...

Abstract The ability to maintain the balance between absorbed light energy and used in photosynthesis is a key factor of plant adaptation variable environmental conditions. In this work, diurnal variations photosynthesis, respiration, thermal dissipation, activity antioxidant system were studied hoary plantain ( Plantago media L.) growing on an open slope (sun plants) under natural shading herb...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of developing a scientifically based organization and use distant pastures in south Kazakhstan. It has been found that composition diversity pasture grasses have significant effect on forage value grass stand ultimately affect capacity desert pastures. Grazing farm animals should be carried out with an optimal load pastures, is, no more than 70% prod...