Plastic substitute material with biodegradable vegetable plastic in the form of edible film is an alternative for plastics that can decompose naturally. The raw consists corn cob flour and a mixture plasticizers glycerol sorbitol. process mixing materials by means dispersion, heating, printing, drying. Variable corncob 5-9 grams ratio plasticizer glycerol-sorbitol 0.25-4. These characteristics ...

There is currently much ongoing research and interest for developing new processing technologies to produce corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). The current study evaluated a high protein (HP) DDGS and a dehydrated corn germ meal which are the products that can be produced by a modifi ed dry milling process. To evaluate the nutritional characteristics of these products, a chick ex...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of soybean meal (SBM) particle size on broiler performance, particularly P utilization. This experiment utilized a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design with the following variables: SBM particle size, P level, and diet type, either corn-SBM or semipurified. SBM was obtained from a processing plant before (geometric mean diameter 1,239 microm) and after...

The proximate composition, rheology and sensory properties of corn-cocoyam salad cream prepared from varied percentage of corn starch (Cs) and cocoyam starch (Cy) (100Cs, 75Cs: 25Cy, 50Cs:50cy, 25Cs:75Cy and 100Cy) were determined and compared with that of commercial Heinz salad cream. Varied quantities of corn-cocoyam starch in salad cream did not affect the moisture and protein contents of th...

This study was conducted to determine the DE and ME content of 25 samples of corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) fed to growing pigs and to generate prediction equations for DE and ME based on chemical analysis. The 25 samples included 15 full-oil (no oil extracted; ether extract [EE] > 8%) DDGS and 10 reduced-oil (oil extracted; EE < 8%) DDGS collected from 17 ethanol plants in C...

In livestock nutrition, summative models (SM) are displacing empirical models as a preferred method to predict energy content of forages. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine nutrient subcomponents required of SM on overall ability to predict energy content of corn and legume-grass silages. Corn (n = 90) and ...

ABSTRACT The tropical sod webworm, Herpetogramma phaeopteralis Guenée is a major turfgrass pest in the southeastern United States. We evaluated larval development on five artificial diets and at six temperatures (15, 20, 25, 30, 32.5, 35 +/- 1 degree C) on St. Augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze). Only larvae fed St. Augustinegrass and soy-wheat germ diets completed their li...

The experiment was conducted in the Crop Research Farm, department of agronomy during summer season 2022 on baby corn crop. treatments consisted 3 levels boron (2kg, 3kg, 4 kg/ha) and Panchagavya (2 sprays 2%, 3%, 4%) as a foliar spray at 15 30 DAS control. laid out Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 10 replicated thrice. Application Boron (4 produced maximum plant height (135.44 cm), dry weigh...

A field experiment was conducted at AHRS Kathalagere, KSNUAHS, Shivamogga, to study the effect of foliar application humic acid with varied nutrient levels on performance sweet corn during summer season 2021. The laid out in RCBD eight treatments replicated thrice. results revealed that significantly higher total dry matter accumulation (218.59 g plant-1) harvest, furthermore cob length (21.42 ...