Corn silage serves as a high-energy forage for dairy cows. This is most important for high-producing herds and on farms experiencing problems with making or buying highquality hay crop forage. Corn silage, with its relatively highenergy content, is also well adapted for use in low-cost rations for fattening cattle. Corn silage requires less labor per ton to produce than many other forage crops....

In this paper, we extend Simple Conceptual Graphs with Reiter’s default rules. The motivation for this extension came from the type of reasonings involved in an agronomy application, namely the simulation of food processing. Our contribution is many fold: first, the expressivity of this new language corresponds to our modeling purposes. Second, we provide an effective characterization of sound ...

Unsustainable agronomic practices and environmental change necessitate a revolution in agricultural production to ensure food security. A new generation of crops that yield more with fewer inputs and are adapted to more variable environments is needed. However, major changes in breeding programmes may be required to achieve this goal. By using the genetic variation in crop yield in specific tar...

An experiment was laid out to study the effect of maize and chickpea intercropping under different row ratios on air temperature vapoure pressure profile in crop canopy at Agronomy farm, Bansilal Amritlal College Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, (Gujarat), India during rabi season year 2021-2022. The soil experimental field loamy sand. a randomized block design with six treatments re...

In the present investigation, trends in population dynamics of major insect pests under rice-potato-okra cropping system have been studied through probability models. Among the major insect pests climbing cutworms were observed on rice, whiteflies and jassids on potato and whiteflies, aphids and jassids on okra. The data have been taken from an experiment which was conducted by the staff of dep...

Guo, Danping. M.S., Purdue University, May 2015. Kernel and Bulk Density Changes due to Moisture Content, Mechanical Damage, and Insect Damage. Major Professor: Klein Ileleji. Corn (Zea Mays), is one of the major grain crops in the world and moisture content, mechanical damage and insect damage are three factors that affect its quality. The primary goal of this thesis was to investigate the eff...