four west african dwarf (wad) grower bucks averaging 6 kg in weight and aged between 5-6 months of age were used in a digestive trial to determine the intake and digestibility of raw or processed pigeon pea seed meal based diets. the diets designated rpbd, spbd, tpbd and bpbd were formulated from cassava peel, palm kernel cake, brewers dry grain, bone meal and common salt to contain 15% of raw,...

in order to study the effects of micronutrients application on some morphological traits associated with seed quantity and quality of sugar beet cultivar shirin, an experiment was conducted in 2001-02 at ardabil agricultural research station. based on soil test results, soil ph was 7.62-7.80 with 0.49- 0.53% organic matter content, and the quantity of absorbable p, total n, and k amounts were f...

1Carrington Research Extension Center, NDSU 2Hettinger Research Extension Center, NDSU The objective of this project was to evaluate corn processed by fi ne grinding or rolling or fed whole in relation to dietary forage level for fi nishing yearling steers. Results indicate when forage levels are greater than 15.5 percent on a dry-matter basis, dry rolling or fi nely grinding corn to maintain a...

The objectives of this study were to determine the effect of light enhancement and hastened reproductive development on nitrogen and dry matter accumulation by field-grown soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.). The impacts of photosynthate supply and reproductive development on change in the season-long profiles of in vivo leaf nitrate reductase (NR) activity and root nodule acetylene reduction (AR)...

in order to study the effect of intensity and exposure duration magnetic field on wheat (triticum aestivum l.) seed germination an experiment was conducted in laboratory of ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. the experiment was including 11 treatments as three level of magnetic field intensities (pretreatment of seeds with 50, 100 and 150 mt magnetic field) and three exposure durations (10, 2...