Increased demands for corn grain warrant the evaluation of alternative grain types for ruminant production systems. This study was conducted to determine the effects of hulled and hull-less barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars compared with corn (Zea mays L.) as an alternative grain type on fermentation in cultures of mixed ruminal microorganisms. Three continuous fermentors were fed 14 g of d...

1. Food Security: One of China’s Most Important Topics 1.1 Population pressure 1.2 Resource pressures 1.3 Grain is taken as one of the most important topics in China 2. Chinese Understanding of Food Security 2.1 Quantity implications 2.2 Quality implications 2.3 Other implications 3. The “White Paper: The Grain Issues in China” 3.1 The background for publishing the white paper 3.2 The main cont...

In 18F micro-autoradiography using a frozen section method, the grain production was measured relative to the exposure time and radioactivity. The grain production increased until 6-hr exposure, but 7-hr or longer exposure induced a characteristic of latent image fading. However, the ratios of the efficiency of grain production between two different 18F-radioactivities (11.9 and 2.3 mBq/100 mic...

The present study was based on primary data collected from 100 farmers in Gulbarga district of Karnataka, India, during the agricultural year 2013-2014. Study shows that average land holding size of pigeonpea seed farmers was higher in comparison to grain farmers and district average. The study illustrates a ratio of 32 : 68 towards fixed and variable costs in pigeonpea certified seed productio...

Adoption of conservative agriculture at farm level is associated with reducing the production costs and leads to crop yield stability. The aim of this study was to prioritize experimental treatments based on different criteria by applying "technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution" (TOPSIS).A filed experiment was carried out at Zarghan research station, Fars province, Iran,...

IntroductIon Solidification structure and macrosegregation have great influence on the quality of high carbon steels. Center segregation in high carbon steel results in a high concentrations of chemical components especially carbon element and has a great influence on the quality of wire rod [1-3]. Wire rod with center cementite network resulting from severe segregation not only shows low ducti...

BACKGROUND Prospective studies suggested that substituting whole-grain products for refined-grain products lowers the risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. Although breakfast cereals are a major source of whole and refined grains, little is known about their direct association with the risk of premature mortality. OBJECTIVE We prospectively evaluated the associat...

The prospect of biofuel production on a large scale has focused attention on energy efficiencies associated with different agricultural systems and production goals. We used 17 years of detailed data on agricultural practices and yields to calculate an energy balance for different cropping systems under both food and fuel scenarios. We compared four grain and one forage systems in the U.S. Midw...

Greater production demands for ruminants require increased dietary inclusion of high-energy feeds. Grains and oil seeds are most commonly used to enhance diet energy density. However, use of such feeds proportionally increases the amount of dietary phytate phosphorus (P), which the ruminant may not be able to fully utilise. Our objectives for this study were to determine the extent of phytate d...