tall fescue (lolium arundinaceum (schreb) sj darbysh.) is one of the fescue species that widely used as forage grass. tall fescue is self-incompatible and wind cross pollination. this study was conducted to study agronomic and morphological characteristics of 25 polycross families of tall fescue during 2011 and 2012 at research station farm in isfahan. number of days to pollination, height of p...

the main objective for development and introduction of the new cultivar was to a achieve a high yielding and adaptative to short growing period or a catch crop, suitable for growing in different areas of iran. after preliminary selections carried out during 1998-2000, 72 foxtail millet populations which had been collected from different parts of iran, were examined and based on different agrono...

Milk yield and quality were observed on 93 Angus, Brahman, and reciprocal-cross cows over 3 yr to evaluate the interactions of direct and maternal breed effects and heterosis with forage environment. Forage environments were common bermudagrass (BG), endophyte-infected tall fescue (E+), and a rotational system (ROT) of both forages, in which each forage (BG or E+) was grazed during its appropri...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the sulfur content of water and forage samples from a geographically diverse sample of beef cow-calf operations in the United States and to estimate frequency and distribution of premises where forage and water resources could result in consumption of hazardous amounts of sulfur by cattle. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SAMPLE POPULATION 709 forage samples from 678 beef ...

Pastures, forages, and grasslands dominate the landscape across the United States and support a large ruminant population that supplies the nation with value-added animal products. A historical perspective is presented of the innovations as they occurred in the Journal of Animal Science over the past 100 yr in pasture and forage research. Consideration was given to both animal and pasture persp...

Three 2.4-ha wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fields were used to test the effects of maturity at harvest (boot vs. dough) and preservation method (hay vs. silage) on forage yield, chemical composition, and animal performance when fed in mixed diets. Forages were incorporated into 4 diets in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with hominy feed, soybean hulls, and cottonseed meal as the prim...

the growth and development of crop models such as aquacrop model is the most important tools for decision-making and predicting crop yields. the aim of this research was to assess aquacrop model for simulating spatial variability of forage maize yield along the furrow. four treatments for calibration and validation of the model were investigated based on the percentage of supplied crop water re...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of concentrations of forages and dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) on production of lactating dairy cows. Twelve Holstein cows were assigned randomly to replicated 4 × 4 Latin squares in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Diets were formulated containing low forage (LF; 41% of diet DM) or high forage (HF; 60% of die...

management of soil fertility via biological fertilizers inoculation is one of the most important components based on sustainable agriculture. in order to investigate the effects of biological and chemical fertilizers on yield and some morphological traits of forage yield sorghum, a field experiment was conducted as factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications at a...