herbage

Herbage was harvested from all of the lysimeters on a schedule that matched the ongoing grazing trial.

Energy for producing 6.4 tons of herbage and 3.5 tons of juice per hour costed about $0.76 per wet ton.

The herbage quality data were analysed using the MIXED procedure, with a model including the fixed effects of pasture type and measurement time.

Herbage allowance (kg DM 100[kg.sup.-1] of body weight) was calculated using the mean of leaf lamina contribution in the HM in each period of the rotational, divided by the number of occupation days and divided by the instantaneous stocking rate, multiplied by 100.

Herbage mass was harvested manually 5 cm from the ground in pre-grazing and then minced into medium particles of 1 to 2 cm and subjected to the treatments: citrus pulp pellets at 7.5% (75 kg [ton.sup.-1] forage) and biological inoculant (Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus salivarius, cellulase and hemicellulose at 5%--250 g 50 [L.sup.-1] water) by spraying 1 L [ton.sup.-1] forage.

However functional group and seasonal variation distinctively influenced the nutritive value of herbage. It was concluded that under conditions of climate change with drought stress events yield decreases in grassland seem to be by far more important than changes in nutritive value.

The objective of this work was to evaluate the dynamics of leaf tissue flows and to characterize the ryegrass canopy structure in different phenological stages and managed under three herbage allowances in grazing with sheep under intermittent stocking.

Additionally, dOM of the pasture herbage was predicted using two equations from the literature that are based on the chemical composition of tropical grass species derived from in vitro estimations using [6]: dOM = 1,395+0.83CP-0.94 NDF-0.74ADF (developed from tropical pasture herbage samples (n = 56) using in vitro rumen fluid-pepsin modified Tilley and Terry as reference methodology); and [15]: dOM = 1.22CP+ 47.33 (developed from samples [n = 18] of six tropical grass species using in vitro pepsin-cellulase Tilley and Terry as reference methodology); where dOM is the apparent total tract organic matter digestibility (g/kg OM), CP the crude protein, NDF the neutral detergent fiber, and ADF the acid detergent fiber (all in g/kg DM).

The safflower herbage includes 9.5-13.8% CP, 37.2-42.1% NDF, 0.4-0.7% tannin and 0.2-0.4% non-protein nitrogen in total nitrogen (Asgharzadeh et al., 2013).

According to her, the national herbage has drastically been depleted.

Grasses, forbs and shrubs of alpine pastures harvested at three different intervals from four different altitudinal zones (2925-4184 m), Basel, Jalkhad, Gittidas and Burawai in upper Kaghan valley, Pakistan, were assessed for herbage production and nutritive value.

Herbage production during the growing season often is restricted by precipitation deficits even when day length and temperatures are favorable [1].

Herbage samples were collected prior to the animal?s access to the pastures.

This study was conducted for two consecutive years (2012 and 2013) to examine the effect of foliar spray of FeSO4 on the development, herbage yield, nutritive composition and quality of teosinte grown in Fe deficient alkaline field.