The University of Minnesota Forage Team is proud to announce the second edition of the Forage Quarterly. The January issues ranges in content from alternative forage systems to acquisition of pasturelands. In addition to the valuable information in this edition, the UMN Forage Team would like to inform you of our upcoming winter meetings. The program was designed to address key forage productio...

Forage sorghum is considered to be the most heat and drought resistant summer forage with a fairly high green forage yield. Forage sorghum is more economical to grow as compared to forage maize with fairly high economic returns. The total area under forages in 2012 in Punjab was 1.82 million hectares with green forage production of 38.8 million tons. The land area of Punjab under forage sorghum...

Sixty Holstein cows were assigned to two treatments at 21 d before calving and were group-fed a prepartum diet with or without yeast culture. After parturition, cows were individually fed one of five treatments for 140 d: 1) 21% forage neutral detergent fiber (NDF) without yeast culture, 2) 21% forage NDF with yeast culture, 3) 17% forage NDF without yeast culture, 4) 17% forage NDF with yeast ...

The effect of stocking rate on forage growth has attracted much research attention in forage science. Findings show that forage growth may be affected by stocking rate, and there is a consensus that high stocking rates lead to soil compaction, which could also in turn affect forage growth because of the changing soil hydrology and increased soil impedance to forage root penetration. In this stu...

Choosing the species suitable for cultivation in intercropped systems is a critical limiting factor grain and forage production. This study aimed to evaluate growth, nodulation, production, physiology of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) guandu bean (Cajanus cajan) with buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) Eucalyptus urograndis (Eucalyptus grandis × urophylla) an integrated production system. Two experime...

The Mixteca region of Oaxaca, Mexico, is characterized by extensive grazing various grasses, shrubs, and trees to raise goats. objective this study was identify determine the dry matter (DM), organic (OM), crude protein, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), in vitro digestibility (IVDMD) species consumed goats Oaxaca. direct observation method used collect forage from during rainy (August-September) ...

ABSTRACT With the expansion of livestock in Amazon region, a high percentage pasture areas are degraded and unproductive. Novel strategies needed, including use native tree species, to simultaneously achieve economic ecosystem benefits. This study aimed at assessing effects five multipurpose species on soil fertility forage quality Urochloa brizantha pastures southern Amazon. Soil samples were ...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the effects of cattle age and dietary forage level on the utilization of corn fed whole or ground to feedlot cattle. In Exp. 1, 16 steers were used to investigate the effects of cattle age and corn processing on diet digestibility. Two cattle age categories were evaluated (weanling [254 +/- 20 kg BW] and yearling [477 +/- 29 kg BW]; eight steers per...

The goats raised in the barn are usually fed on fresh grass. As dry forage can be stored for long periods in large amounts, dry forage feeding makes it possible to feed large numbers of goats in barns. This review explains the physiological factors involved in suppressing dry forage intake and the cause of drinking following dry forage feeding. Ruminants consume an enormous amount of dry forage...

Wood cockroaches (Blattaria: Blattellidae) are important prey of the red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis Wilson (Piciformes: Picidae), an endangered species inhabiting pine (Pinus spp.) forests in the southern United States. These woodpeckers forage on the boles of live pine trees, but their prey consists of a high proportion ofwood cockroaches, Parcoblatta spp., that aremore commonly as...