BACKGROUND Improvement of biofeedstock quality for cellulosic ethanol production will be facilitated by inexpensive and rapid methods of evaluation, such as those already employed in the field of ruminant nutrition. Our objective was to evaluate whether forage quality and compositional measurements could be used to estimate ethanol yield of maize stover as measured by a simplified pretreatment ...

The nutritional image of bovine milk fat has suffered for years because of the association of saturated fatty acids and coronary heart disease. Thus the alteration of fatty acid composition has been a long-term strategy. Forages, even though containing a relatively low level of lipids, are the cheapest and often the major source of beneficial unsaturated fatty acids in ruminant diets. Recent pr...

background: identifying the potential of livestock and forage plants of each region is a way to compensate the lack of forage, and efficient use of edible resources of the country. milk thistle is a medicinal plant which may be used as fodder for native livestock of khuzestan province. objectives: the purpose of this research was to study  the effects of different levels of milk thistle on rume...

regarding increased limitations on fresh water availability in agriculture and the necessity of finding solutions for management of unconventional waters, some scenarios for using saline water were assessed for forage maize. saltmed model, as an integrated approach, can be used for a variety of irrigation systems, soil types, soil stratifications, crops, water management strategies (blending or...

a field experiment was conducted in order to study the effect of nitrogen fertilizer and plant density on yield and quality of maize (zea mays l.) cultivar, mv500 silage as second crop. this study was conducted in agricultural research station of kurdistan university during 2012 growing season. the experiment was laid out as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replic...