Factors affecting the nutritive value of whole-crop cereal silage for beef cattle were examined. In Experiment 1, finishing steers offered barley silage, harvested at the milky (262 g dry matter ...

FARGO - Many North Dakota corn fields probably will not mature this year, resulting in an opportunity to harvest significant amounts of silage for animal feed, according to a North Dakota State ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Agricultural researchers with Montana State University have announced a new variety of forage barley, and that technology is now available for licensing. Licensing proposals must be ...

Two trials were conducted to study the effect of feeding barley silage on the behaviour and performance of beak-trimmed laying hens. In each trial, 20 hens and 2 roosters were housed in each of eight ...

Three experiments studied the effects of level of barley supplementation on the liveweight, carcass weight and carcass compositional changes of cull Friesian cows fed silage. Additional objectives ...

This article is sponsored by Pasture Genetics. Russell Zahnow of Zahnoonah Pastoral Co at Mundubbera, Queensland, has grown Pasture Genetics’ Moby forage barley for several years now across various ...

Producers seeking a flexible, high feed value forage crop to sow this year should take a close look at whole-crop spring barley. Whole-crop works well in any situation, reckons Keenan nutritionist ...

The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, shows a new study. Seeking to find ...

For many producers, silage making has been a tricky task over the last few years with many struggling to get decent yields let alone decent quality of silage due to some of the most unpredictable ...