The present experiment was conducted to study diet digestibility, feed intake, animal performance and carcass characteristics of growing dairy bulls offered diets based on whole-crop barley, a mixture of whole-crop barley and hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) or a mixture of whole-crop wheat and hairy vetch relative to moderate digestible grass silage-based diet. The feeding experiment with 24 ...

Winter cover crops are used in organic olive production to increase N-supply and yields, reduce weed competition. However, there is limited information on the effect of different suppression, soil fertility productivity orchards. Here, we compared relative four contrasting established from (i) untreated vetch seed, (ii) seed inoculated with a commercial Rhizobium inoculum, (iii) an vetch/barley...

Cropping diversification with cover crop mixtures combined low N fertilization represents an ecological alternative that may promote sustainability. Our objective was to evaluate changes on soil organic fractions and structure, biomass, main yield 5 years after the introduction of two mixtures, oats+forage radish (CC1) radish+vetch (CC2), in a soybean-soybean maize-soybean sequence maize. After...

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...