This study was carried out to compare in situ and in vitro enzyme techniques for determining estimates of forage escape proteins. Eight forages (vetch hay, wheat silage, corn silage, wheat hay, grass hay, lentil straw, triticale hay and alfalfa hay) were used as feed materials. During 70 h, incubation with enzyme method had similar escape protein values for vetch hay, wheat hay, grass hay, trit...

Nutritional disorders associated with both forage and feed consump­ tion can have a large impact on the profitability of beef cattle operations. Forages are an important component of beef cattle production systems in Arkansas. Most cow­calf and stocker cattle enterprises in Arkansas rely heavily on forage­based nutritional programs. Forages are used for both livestock grazing and hay production...

Fresh forages are an important natural source of vitamins and fatty acids in ruminant diets, and their concentrations in forage species are important for the quality of animal-derived foods such as dairy and meat products. The aims of this study were to obtain novel information on vitamins and fatty acids (FA) in a variety of forage legumes and non-legume forb species compared to a grass-clover...

A 2-yr study investigated effects of different levels of concentrate supplementation on milk production, composition, and lactation curves in pastured dairy goats. For both years, 44 Alpine goats (Capra hircus; 55 +/- 11 kg body weight) were randomly allocated to 4 groups. Animals were supplemented with 0.66 (treatments A and B), 0.33 (treatment C), or 0 kg of concentrate (treatment D) per kg o...

R7 stage (one seed pod at mature color; 50% of leaves yellow) produced forage that was similar in quality to Tall forage soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cultivars in maturity alfalfa harvested at early bloom. When soybean was groups V, VI, and VII have been developed to supply forage. Our objective was to determine the effect of harvest date and row spacing grown as an intercrop with corn, the...

The objective of this study was to evaluate self-fed byproducts on pasture reared finishing cattle. Major effects studied were animal performance, carcass traits and fatty acid (FA) profile with specific emphasis on conjugated linoleic acid (cis-9, trans-11–18:2; CLA). Eighty-two crossbred yearling steers were utilized in a 2 × 2 factorial design with implanted and non-implanted cattle fed eith...

It is extremely difficult for the Hawai‘i beef industry to compete against the concentrate-finished beef that dominates the U.S. beef industry because of our state’s lack of grain production, lack of economy of scale, and an inefficient processing segment. Nevertheless, produc­ ers continue to keep their faith in the local and emerg­ ing niche markets, looking for opportunities for mar­ keting ...

We aimed to test the associative effects among forages, and between forage concentrates on in vitro digestibility of dry matter neutral detergent fibre using an artificial ruminal fermentation system. The study consisted two assays, which were evaluated three sugarcane, maize silage, Tifton 85 hay under incubation conditions (single feed or all feeds together a jar), sugarcane soybean meal and/...