Sentences with word «silage»

A 2014 study led by Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock, and Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer in Amarillo, and contributed to by Texas Tech University graduate students Karl Brauer and Traci Bland, showed the biggest factor in corn silage quality was water.

Almost no particles were found in samples of silage from biogas production.

The mold also grows on corn stalks used as silage to feed cows.

Korhonen M, Vanhatalo A, and Huhtanen P. Effect of Protein Source on Amino Acid Supply, Milk Production, and Metabolism of Plasma Nutrients in Dairy Cows Fed Grass Silage.

The draw of this game is the ability to plan out your own farming business, from which crops to grow, to what farming equipment to use to do that most effectively, and figuring out how else you could be using the land to make profit, like logging or selling silage from cows.

«Silage quality decreased with decreasing ET.

The sidewalls of huge truck tires — thousands per week during the summer — are sold as covers for silage pits and as sleeve anchors to hold plastic traffic barrels in place.

In addition to the dairy operation, the Silacci family grows about 25 % of their own high - quality feeds (organic alfalfa and clover) and all of their organic pasture grasses and silage on 196 acres of rolling hills and pasture.

This is true for fertilizers, substrates, products to combat parasites as well as plant protection products, disinfectants, livestock feeds and silage additives.

Laforsch and his colleagues looked at several different kinds of biowaste that's composted and spread on farmland in Germany, including household compost and grass clippings, supermarket waste and grain silage leftover from biogas production.

Large dairies, milking more than 2000 cows, in Gippsland have been feeding silage and other supplements since the start of the year.

Hero's cattle are fed a strict vegetarian diet of hay, alfalfa, barley silage and barley — and never any animal byproduct.

Feeding animals on badly prepared silage can adversely affect the quality of several varieties of cheese.

The family had stopped using herbicides on the farm in the mid-1970s, and in the early 1980s, Albert replaced tilling fields, used to grow silage, with a no - till method of planting, to prevent soil erosion and reduce fuel consumption.

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Hay and silage harvest now start much earlier in the season which reduces the time available for larval development.

Lab scale studies but also experiments in production plants showed a significant enhancement of biogas yield for electrically treated substrate like manure or maize silage.

Are we talking about cows that live and eat on pastures * 12 months * per year, or do they eat silage about 6 months per year (late Fall, Winter, and early Spring)?

Unpredictable weather and seasonal work with silage and hay throw an extra spanner in the works for...

The superstructures are identical to those of the tipper trailers, for the volume increase silage attachments can be mounted.

This student spent an amazing amount of time analyzing the fat and sugar content of hog feeds: corn, acorns, fermented silage, scraps, walnuts, etc..

While cows don't really prefer the straw / hay combo, they will learn to eat it by adding silage, wheat, maize, soya or sugar beet, «just as children are encouraged to take their medicine by cloaking it in a syrup» because they can't pick around it.

«We are keen to see whether we can also confirm that higher quantities of methane are produced when corn silage or sugar beets are used,» said Nikolausz.

Certified organic meat comes from animals that are fed certified organic feed so Australian Certified Organic also tests animal feed such as silage, hay and pasture.

The laboratory also facilitates a forage analysis service for fresh grass and grass silage.

It is usually used for silage, grazing, hay, cover crop, and green manure.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE With barely a sound, the red and white International Harvester feed truck unloaded a mix of silage, barley and rice to a dozen pregnant cows, releasing a...

Pollen paid $ 917 for an 80 - pound calf and the food and supplements that fattened it for 14 - 16 months, or until it reached a 1,250 - pound «meat market» size, He visited the calf regularly and watched it ingest synthetic growth hormones, antibiotics (blended into the corn silage) and protein supplements (from animal carcasses).

Duck offal, cooking waste, and silage are used to produce methane that fuel three generators.

Under organic standards cows must eat a 60 % fresh grass based diet or hay / silage (conserved grass) which is likely to be a factor in the higher omega 3 levels.

Kuhn, product specialist, Tom de Greenlaw said managing nutritional quality and cost of production underpinned a silage enterprise.

Lactic acid - forming microorganisms, for example, can be used to preserve fodder (silage) for livestock.

The silage and hay made last year has seen ample volumes of fodder conserved, only adding to the carry overstocks of silage from 2016.

If grass is in short supply, cattle are fed other natural options such as silage.

Our cows graze on the sweet grasses and silage that grow in the unique, coastal climate of western Marin and Sonoma Counties, and you can really taste the difference their diet makes.

Silage and grass quality is one of the most important factors to consider when making nutritional decisions and formulating diet.

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Their balanced, vegetarian diet consists mostly of fresh pasture grasses, silage, and hay, as well as purchased animal feeds that are 100 % certified organic and verified non-GMO.

In the North Bay Coast region of California, with long wet and dry seasons, the cows eat a diet of 50 — 80 % forages, which include fresh grasses, silage, and hay, depending on the time of year and pasture growth.

Forage Treatment Silo - King ® is Agri - King's multi-purpose forage and grain treatment program for use on corn silage, haylage, large and small square bales, round bales, balage, high moisture cracked grains and small grain silages.

Morgan won this year's P'ingredients Cookoff with such great recipes as Silage and Ham Balls (which is made with something called Ham Loaf).

But he wrote: «Let me try to reason with any in my party, the folk who want to launch themselves headlong into the silage, because I genuinely think that they (if they indeed exist) must be utterly nuts.

Quality is such an important part of silage that if a producer is even a half inch short on irrigation, it can affect silage quality, he said.

In a paper recently published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal, researchers report nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) emissions from a dairy forage rotation (silage corn - barley - alfalfa) in south - central Idaho that received various nitrogen sources, including granular urea, an enhanced - efficiency fertilizer (SuperU), dairy manure, or composted dairy manure.

The four - year project will also investigate how best to grow organic oregano and whether to process the plant either as hay or silage.

The problem is that once a running track or a silage pit cover is built, it doesn't need repair or replacement for a long time.