Forage crops quality

This is a cross between wheat and rye. Triticale combines the yield and quality of wheat with the winter hardiness of rye and is also disease resistant. It can be used as a replacement for concentrates in a livestock ration because it is high in crude protein and essential amino acids. Its place in the rotation is similar to rye, so that it can be used as a forage crop or a green manure. 

Sleugh B, Moore KJ, George JR, Brummer EC (2000) Binary legume-grass mixtures improve forage yield, quality, and seasonal distribution. Agron J 92 24-29 Smolinska U, Morra MJ, Knudsen GR, James RL (2003) Isothiocyanates produced by Brassicaceae species as inhibitors of Fusarium oxysporum. Plant Dis 87 407-412 Soon YK, Harker KN, Clayton GW (2004) Plant competition effects on the nitrogen economy of field pea and the subsequent crop. Soil Sci Soc Am J 68 552-557... 

Horsted, K., Hammershoj, M. and Hermansen, J.E. (2006) Short-term effects on productivity and egg quality in nutrient-restricted versus non-restricted organic layers with access to different forage crops. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A Animal Science 56, 42-54. 

Hay, R.M.K. and Offer, N.W., Helianthus tuberosus as an alternative forage crop for cool maritime regions — a preliminary study of the yield and nutritional quality of shoot tissues from perennial stands, J. Sci. FoodAgric., 60, 213-221, 1992. 

Harter T., Davis H., Mathews M. C., and Meyer R. D. (2002) Shallow groundwater quality on dairy farms with irrigated forage crops. J. Contamin. Hydrol. 55, 287-315. 

Marten, G.C. 1973A. Alkaloids in reed ca-narygrass In Matches, A.G. EA)Anti-Quality Components of Forages. Crop Sciences Society of America, Madison, WI. pp. 15-31-... 

Simultaneously with the sowing of the first crop. Dr. W. j. White started a breeding program at the Federal Department of Agriculture Dominion Forage Crops Laboratory in Saskatoon, Dr. H. K. Sallans and Mr. G. D. Sinclair at the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council at Saskatoon did the early work of quality evaluation on the oil in terms of iodine value, acid value, refractive index, and oil color. 

D. Burdick, F. E. Barton n, and B. D. Nelson, Rapid Determination of Forage Quality with a Near Infrared Filter Spectrometer, in Pwc. 36th Southern Pasture a Forage Crop Improvement Conf, BeltsviUe, Maryland, May 1979, pp. 81-86. 

Feed ration Forage based on cut and carry grass is often poor quality from communal areas such as river beds and road sides, and residues from cash crops or human food crops (e.g. maize stover, rice straw and banana pseudostem). Concentrates are based on local (national) residues like maize bran and cottonseed meal. 

Food production and consumption between the 6th and the 2nd millennium B.C. is characterized by the spread of the Neolithic suite of domesticated animals and crops, which apparently were adopted in different tempos and combinations in different regional contexts (24, 25). While some areas apparently relied on foraging until relatively late, others seem to have adopted quickly and thoroughly the Neolithic economic patterns. It is believed that in the Mediterranean reliance on fishing did not reach the same importance it did in the Atlantic and Baltic areas (1), although the quality of the evidence is not homogeneous. 

Chemey, J. H., Axtell, J. D., Hassen, M. M., and Anliker, K. S., 1988, Forage quality characterization of a chemically induced brown-midrib mutant in pearl millet, Crop Sci. 28 783-787. 

Degenhart, N.R., B.K. Wemer, and G.W. Burton, 1995, Forage yield and quality of a brown midrib mutant in pearl millet, Crop Sci. 35 986-988. 

When straws and other low-quality roughages are treated with ammonia (see p. 529), about 0.3-0.5 of the ammonia is retained by the roughage and may be utilised by the rumen microorganisms in the same way as ammonia derived from urea. Similarly, urea treatment of whole crop cereals can be used to produce an alkaline preserved forage with a pH of approximately pH 8.0, and increase the crude protein content by 40-80 g/kg DM. 

J. S. Shenk, M. O. Westerhaus, M. R. Hoover, K. M. Mayberry, and H. K. Goering, Predicting Forage Quality by Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy, in Proc. 2nd Int. Green Crop Drying Conf, University of Saskatchewan, 1978, pp. 292-299. 

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