to increasing total energy content through (i) increasing the contribution of grain and (ii) increasing the digestMaize (Zea mays L.) silage is a high-quality forage for ruminants, ibility of the stover. Much of the variation in forage dibut there have been few significant breeding efforts specifically dedicated to improving maize forage yield or quality by breeders in the gestibility can be ac...

Abstract The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a live culture Aspergillus oryzae (A; CCT4359) and fibrolytic enzyme (E; Fibrozyme Alltech Inc.) on fibre digestibility by gas production bioassay in vitro degradation maize silage sugarcane silage. A completely randomized design trial performed evaluate: doses (0, 20, 60 100 mg/l), E 160, 320 480 mg/l) roughage source (R; silag...

In this paper we propose a new approach to coordinate multiple machines in the grain harvesting process, based on meta-constraint reasoning. This way we obtain more flexible plans that can be adapted at execution time. As an example scenario we focus on silage maize harvesting. We argue that more sophisticated flexible planning mechanisms are needed in order to obtain flexible plans that can be...

This work was aimed at assessing whether in silage maize it is possible to replace precisionplanting with a volumetric seeding in the perspective of developing hybrid machines to strip tilland sow both high density crops like winter cereals and low density crops like maize. This inorder to reduce the number of machines in the farm, simplify logistics and reduce amortizationcosts. Two experiment...

Eighty eight Friesian cows and heifers were fed one of four complete diets based on maize silage and containing increasing levels of grain (from 0 to 500 g DM/kg diet DM), in two trials. Days from calving to first observed oestrus and to conception were recorded as were yields of milk and milk fat and live weight changes during early lactation. In the second trial, complete lactation data were ...

Feeding cum growth trial was conducted on male Barbari goats to study the growth, blood metabolites, antioxidant and coccidial egg count feeding of Maize silage having Moringa leaves. Eighteen (Aged about 3 months Avg B.Wt. 9.53±0.42 kg) were divided in completely randomized design into (CRD) three groups six each. Control group (Gr C) fed with concentrate pellet, green gram straw ad lib. Treat...

Milk performance (protein and fat content) and milk fatty acids (FA) profile of dairy cows under supplementation with two sources of concentrate, oilseeds (C, cottonseed) at two levels, low (5kg DM/cow/day) and high (7 kg DM/cow/day), and cereal grains (B, barley) at high rate (7 kg DM/cow/day), were studied in three herds (n=36) of spring calving Holstein-Friesian dairy cows (200 days in milk)...

Three experiments were carried out to study the effects of feeding lucerne silage (wilted to give different drymatter (DM) contents) and ventilated hay to dairy cows on milk production, milk quality, milk-renneting properties, clostridial spore content and the quality of cheese prepared from the milk. The lucerne, cut at vegetative or early-bud stages of maturity, was harvested from alternate w...

in order to study the effects of plant density and nitrogen rates on yield, nitrate and protein of silage maize (ksc 704) in shahrekord area, an experiment was conducted during 2007 growing season at the agricultural research farm of shahrekord university. the experimental design of the experiment was randomized complete blocks with factorial arrangement with four replications. treatment consis...