In southeastern regions of the US, herbage systems are primarily based on grazing or hay feeding with low nutritive value warm-season perennial grasses. Nutritious herbage such as annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) may be more suitable for preserving as baleage for winter feeding even with more intensive production inputs. Emerging in-line wrapped baleage storage systems featuring rapid ...

the nutritive value of grass pea (lathyrus sativus l.) hay was evaluated based on its chemical composition, gas production, fractioning of protein in cncps and afrc systems, metabolizable energy (me), rumen degradability through in situ technique and in vitro digestibility through tilley and terry method. the crude protein (cp), neutral detergent fiber (ndf) and acid detergent fiber (adf) value...

hazelnut (corylus avellna l.) is one of the important nut crops in world. the harvesting ofhazelnuts is done either by hand or by manual or mechanical raking of fallen nuts in iran.common hazel is widely cultivated for its nuts, including in commercial orchards in europe,turkey, and iran. there are some genotypes of hazelnut in iran that their growing areas arelimited to gillan, aredbil, mazand...

Silage is a common way of storing and feeding forage in the United States. There are 4 phases (aerobic, anaerobic, stable, and feedout) that silage undergoes. The most critical phases to manage to minimize nutritive losses are when the silage is going from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment and at feedout. The first important step in achieving silage of high nutritive value is to harvest at...

The relationship between reinforcement properties of different kinds of nutritive rewards has a long history in psychology. Recent investigations have begun to assess the effect or reinforcement value of non-nutritive rewards such as social and non-social stimuli presented by way of video presentations or slides. In short, whether social stimuli can substitute or be as effective in maintaining ...