Abstract In the face of climate change, cropping systems need to achieve a high performance, providing food and feed adapting variable environmental conditions. Diversification can support ecosystem services associated biodiversity, but there is little evidence on which temporal field arrangement affects performance crop yields (productivity stability), partly due lack long-term data appropriat...

Since 2001 the European Commission banned the use of meat and bone meal and its byproducts in diets for livestock animals (EC directive 999/2001) in order to assure consumer safety on animal products. Consequently, soybean meal became the most utilised protein source in the intensive livestock systems. Moreover, the proteins of this source are low degradable in the rumen and well proportioned t...

Article history: Received 2 December 2009 Received in revised form 18 October 2010 Accepted 23 December 2010 The study was conducted to determine chemical composition and standardised ileal digestibilities (SID) of crude protein (CP) and amino acids (AA) in currently available grain legume cultivars for growing pigs. Three consecutive experiments were conducted with six barrows each, fitted wit...

With approximately 11 million habitants, Guatemala is mostly a rural country, with 60 percent of the population living on farms and 50 percent of the population indigenous. Maize and beans are the main staple food in most households, with a per capita consumption of 9.4 kg per year. Since few other sources of protein are available, this amount is not sufficient to ensure an acceptable nutrition...

Literature data from experiments with lactating dairy cows offered silage-based diets was reviewed to evaluate the effects of the grassland legume species Trifolium repens (WC, white clover), Trifolium pratense (RC, red clover) and Medicago sativa (M, lucerne) on feed intake, milk production and milk quality. Seven data sets were created to compare grass silage (G) with grassland legumes in gen...

The aim of this study was to determine the correlations between output parameters in sacco method and CNCPS (Cornell Net Carbohydrate Protein System). Both methods were tested on 106 samples from feeds classified into following categories: extracted meal cakes, cereals, legumes, maize alfalfa silage, other silages, DDGS (dried distiller’s grains with solubles), oilseeds various hays. effective ...

Smallholder dairy production is increasingly becoming popular in Jimma town. However, feed shortage is a major constraint to dairy production. The objectives of this study was to assess feed resources, feeding practices and farmers' perceived causes of feed shortage and coping strategies to feed scarcity in smallholder dairy producers in Jimma town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. A total of 5...

Green biomass is a major potential source of proteins for food and feed. This pre-feasibility study evaluates the use green buckwheat, phacelia, hemp oilseed radish grown as intermediate crops (IC) feedstock production protein concentrates to produce protein-rich feed products. We investigated yield, concentration recovery non-fertilized IC, nitrogen-fertilized IC intercropped with legumes, har...

Context Increasing demand for livestock products in developing countries provides opportunities smallholder farmers to increase and diversify their income through increased production. However, production these systems is often limited by inadequate animal nutrition, need ways the availability quality of feed without compromising yields food crops or increasing area land planted forages. Aim Us...

A circular phosphorus (P) bioeconomy is not only worthwhile for conserving limited mineral P reservoirs, but also minimizing negative environmental impacts caused by human-made alterations. Although an essential nutrient, most of the in concentrates based on cereals, legumes and oilseed byproducts organically bound to phytate. The latter cannot be efficiently utilized monogastric animals theref...