Methane production has been measured from lambs fed contrasting forages. This work has been driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and to determine energy losses to methane from contrasting diets. Young ram lambs were fed either fresh ryegrass/white clover pasture, lucerne (also pelleted lucerne), sulla, chicory, red clover, Lotus pedunculatus (lotus) and mixture...

Chicory plant (Dorema aucheri) belongs to Asteraceae family and contains flavonoids. Milk is a mixture of protein, fat, lactose, minerals. This research carried out in order to evaluate the effect of chicory plant on the activities of bifidobacterium bifidum and lactobacillus acidophilus. Four containers containing a liter of 1.5 % sterilized skim milk were s...

In this study, roots of Turkish origin wild chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) genotypes were investigated for total flavonoid and phenolic contents, radical cation scavenging activity (ABTS), Free (DPPH), radical, mineral content. These characteristics also compared with other coffee varieties. The contents ranged between 0.290-4.350 mg QE/g dry weight (DW) 0.943-13.860 GAE/g DW. DPPH was listed h...

Vegetable transplanting is an important and advantageous practice in vegetables production systems. In recent years, the development of vegetable tools has increased, as well interest for automatic robotic transplanters. However, at present, feeding machines often still performed by hand. This paper presents design, testing a needle gripper two-finger transplanting. Both grippers were self-desi...