Ditylenchus dipsaci-infected and noninfected alfalfa plants in a naturally infested field were studied from July 1980 to September 1982. Forty-one percent of the plants died during the study. Ninety-seven percent of the plants that died were infected with D. dipsaci. Sixty-nine percent of the observed mortality occurred during winter. Forage yield of infected plants was significantly lower than...

Little information is available comparing wheat forage varieties, rumen fermentation and biomass production for different wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars. A combination of grazing and in vitro experiments was conducted at Texas A & M (TAM) AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Vernon, TX from 2003 to 2004. Our objective was to determine the effects of wheat varieties (WV) and forage al...

ball et al., 1997). The ecology of natural populations of plantain and its biology as a weed have been investigated Graziers in the northeast USA often face forage shortages in mid(Bassett, 1973; Kuiper and Bos, 1992). Apart from older summer. Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) and English plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) have been introduced in the USA as sumer-active reports in the scientific li...

Weight gain of young dairy replacement heifers, even over several months, is highly variable, lowly heritable, and a poor indicator of either weight at calving or first lactation milk yield. Voluntary forage consumption is much less variable, more heritable, and a better predictor of weight at calving and milk yield. Weight at calving is highly heritable but not correlated genetically with milk...

The effects of an increasing proportion of crushed linseed (CL) in combination with varying forage type (grass or corn silage) and forage to concentrate ratio (F:C), and their interactions on milk fatty acid (FA) profile of high-producing dairy cows was studied using a 3-factor Box-Behnken design. Sixteen Holstein and 20 Swedish Red cows were blocked according to breed, parity, and milk yield, ...

Intercropping legume with cereal is an extensively applied planting pattern in crop cultivation. However, forage potential and the degradability of harvested mixtures from intercropping system remain unclear. To investigate the feasibility of applying an intercropping system as a forage supply source to ruminants, two consecutive experiments (experiments 1 and 2) involving a field cultivation t...

this research aims to evaluate the effects of seed scarification on five perennialastragalus species including a. effusus, a. vegetus, a. subsecundus, a. brevidens and a.cyclophyllon in the field conditions. seeds were sown after scarification with sandpaper byhand in the field of homand absard rangeland research station, damavand, iran in autumnin 2008. the seeds were sown using split plot des...

this study planed to determine appropriate planting date and proportion of alfalfa and barley in mixed cropping. experiment carried out in khair abad station of agricultural and natural resources research center of zanjan for five years (2004-2007), using split plot design which main plot was planting date (aug .15, sep.26 and oct .6) and subplot contain alfalfa to barley ratio, barley, alfalfa...