The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of replacing dry ground corn with crude glycerol on intake, apparent digestibility, performance, and carcass characteristics of finishing beef bulls. A completely randomized block design experiment with 25 d for adaptation and 100 d for data collection was conducted, in which 3,640 Nellore bulls (367 ± 36.8 kg; 18 ± 3 mo) were blocked by b...

First rotation Pinus radiata D. Don trees were grown on a nitrogen-deficient sand dune in an experimental design that included lupin (Lupinus arboreus Sims) as an understory species, and biennial application of balanced fertilizer in a replicated split-plot factorial design with thinning treatments as subplots. From an initial 2222 stems ha(-1), stands were thinned to 1483 and 741 trees ha(-1) ...

In this study the effects of different packaging materials on Tulum cheese made with cloth, stomach, animal skin, pot and plastic materials were investigated. Dry matter, ash, titratable acidity, salt, salt in dry matter, fat, total protein, water soluble nitrogen (WSN), trichloroacetic acid soluble nitrogen (TCA-SN), phosphotungstic acid soluble nitrogen (PTA-SN), electrophoretic casein fracti...

This trial evaluated the effects of dietary supplementation with monensin sodium on dry matter intake, metabolic parameters and milk yield and milk composition of dairy Saanen goats in the periparturient period. Twelve Saanen pregnant dairy goats were assigned to a treatment and a control group. Saanen goats were fed monensin as its 10% sodium salt in the amount of 33 mg/kg of total dry matter ...

effect of three different levels of fe-eddha foliar application and soil application of nitrogen on some quantitative and qualitative characteristics of apple (cv. fuji) grafted on maling-9 was evaluated. this experiment carried out at the experimental field of tehran university, in 2013. the factorial experiment was carried out as randomized completely block design (rcbd) with three replicatio...

In the present study antioxidant activity of the plant was assessed. For this purpose Cyperus rotundus was extracted by using different extraction solvents and evaluated for their antioxidant activity using different in vitro antioxidant assays. Total flavonoids contents in methanol extracts of Cyperus rotundus (8.15-18.25 mg CE/g of dry matter) were higher as compared to ethanol extracts (6.44...

Chemical-mechanical separation of pig slurry into a solid fraction rich in dry matter, P, Cu and Zn and a liquid fraction rich in inorganic N but poor in dry matter may allow farmers to manage surplus slurry by exporting the solid fraction to regions with no nutrient surplus. Pig slurry can be applied to arable land only in certain periods during the year, so it is commonly stored prior to fiel...

Twenty-four multiparous Holstein cows were used in six 4×4 Latin squares with 28day periods to determine inclusion rates for wet corn gluten feed (WCGF) in diets for lactating dairy cows. Cows were housed in a tie-stall barn and fed diets to meet or exceed NRC (1989) nutrient requirements. Experimental treatments were 1) control, 2) WCGF constituting 20%, 3) WCGF constituting 27.5%, and 4) WCGF...

this experiment was conducted to study the effect of plastic mulch on the growth and some physiological characteristics of two strawberry cultivars (paros and queen elisa) under drought stress. a factorial experiment was performed based on randomized complete block design with four treatments, including mulch, without mulch, normal irrigation (control) and deficit irrigation (-10 bar) with thre...