Search Results - Forage plants

A paradigm shift towards low-nitrifying systems: The role of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) by Subbaraoa, Guntur V., Sahrawat, Kanwar Lal, Nakahara, K., Rao, Idupulapati M., Ishitani, Manabu, Hash, C.T., Kishi, M., Bonnett, D., Berry, W., Lata, Jean-Christophe

“…The ability to suppress soil nitrification by the release of nitrification inhibitors from plant roots is termed ‘biological nitrification inhibition’ (BNI), an active plant-mediated natural function that can limit the amount of N cycling via the nitrification pathway. …”
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Selectividad animal de forrajes herbáceos y leñosos en pasturas seminaturales en Muy Muy, Nicaragua by Velásquez Vélez, Raúl, Skarpe, Christina, Ibrahim, Muhammad Akbar, Mora, Jairo, Benjamín, Tamara

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Cover crop by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Stylosanthes guyanensis is a leguminous forage plant that is particularly easy to grow and highly favoured by livestock Requiring little maintenance or input, this plant is ideal for improving pastures or even for monocultures. …”
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Training sessions of volunteer dairy farmers during the workshops lauching the 2024 campaign of experimentation of agroecological technologies by Ouattara Songdah, Désiré, Sib, Ollo, Traore, Issouf, Ouattara, Baba, Vall, Eric

“…The OnEDA consisted of: 1) a forage and seed production system called Fodder Demo-Plot (FDP); 2) advice on the rational management of the farm's plant and animal co-products using the CoProdScope tool (Zoungrana et al., 2023); 3) advice on dairy cow ration management using the Jabnde tool implemented in Dairy Production Workshops using FDP fodder and 4) Efficient Covered Manure Pits with monitoring of the recycling of animal and plant coproducts from production and the use of organic manure.…”
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Evaluation of the agricultural production systems simulator simulating Lucerne and annual ryegrass dry matter yield in the Argentine Pampas and south-eastern Australia by Ojeda, Jonathan Jesus, Pembleton, Keith G., Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Agnusdei, Monica Graciela, Garcia, Sergio Carlos

“…Modelling plant growth provides a tool for evaluating interactions between environment and management of forage crops for pasture-based livestock systems. …”
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Availability and utilization of feed resources in small ruminant production among smallholder farmers in northern Ghana by Konlan, Solomon Pigangsoa

“…However, few farmers (18%) had stands of browse plants like Leucaena leucocephala, Cajanus cajan and Gliricidia sepium. …”
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Dynamics of pasture discharge and its architecture by Gastó, Juan M.

“…Also presented is a general function of architecture that allows a description of plant form. The second part of the study describes and compares diverse discharge models. …”
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Dosis y frecuencia de aplicación de fósforo y potasio en cinco gramineas tropicales. by Monsalve, Sigifredo A., Martinez W., Orlando

“…The grasses studied have different requirements of P and K, being the requirements of these elements for napiergrass higher than for the other species included in this study. The forage yield of angletongrass, guineagrass, pangolagrass and paragrass is not increased due to the addition of P and K for a period of three years after planting the grasses. …”
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Added interest at the fodder bank by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Fodder banks, which are planted pastures of forage legumes, were originally developed to provide dry-season feed for cattle in the subhumid zone of West Africa. …”
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Intensification of agriculture on Vertisols to minimize land degradation in parts of the Ethiopian highlands by El Wakeel, A., Astatke, A.

“…While not decreasing the yield of grain, mixed cropping of grain and forage crops has been shown to give significantly greater total crop residue yields. …”
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Performance of the Ethiopian Somali Goat during different watering Regimes by Mengistu, U.

“…The milk yield was less than half a liter per day although good forage was available. Concentrate supplementation increased milk yield by 13%, but reduced fat percentage. …”
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Increased Nitrogen Retention and Reduced Methane Emissions of Beef Cattle Grazing Legume vs. Grass Irrigated Pastures in the Mountain West USA by MacAdam, Jennifer W., Pitcher, Lance R., Bolletta, Andrea Ivana, Guevara Ballesteros, Raúl David, Beauchemin, Karen A., Xin, Dai, Villalba, Juan J.

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Evaluación de la selectividad animal de plantas herbáceas y leñosas forrajeras durante dos épocas en la zona alta del municipio de Muy Muy, Nicaragua by Pineda, Néstor, Pérez, Edward, Vásquez, Fabio

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Råproteinförändringar i timotej och rödklöver by Arrhén, Linnéa

An overview of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) situation in Argentina by Basigalup, Daniel Horacio, Giletta, Martin Alfredo, Odorizzi, Ariel, Arolfo, Valeria, Sanchez, Federico Raul, Urrets Zavalia, Gastón

“…From the approximately 3.2 million ha of alfalfa grown in Argentina in 2018, about 60% is planted as pure stands and 40% in mixtures with temperate forage grasses. …”
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Manejo de la producción de semilla en zona de riego by Moschetti, Carlos, Dell'agostino, Eduardo

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Utfodringsstrategier för minskade metanutsläpp från enterisk fermentering hos mjölkkor by Stensson, Lisa

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Suplementación en estepas patagónicas: ¿oportunidad o riesgo ambiental? by Golluscio, Rodolfo Ángel, Garcia Martinez, Guillermo Carlos, Ormaechea, Sebastián Gabriel, Valenta, Magalí Débora

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Types of silvopastoral systems: adding trees to pastoral/rangelands. by Beltran, Marcelo Javier, Cambareri, Gustavo Sebastián, Banegas, Natalia Romina, Peri, Pablo Luis, Colcombet, Luis, Martínez Pastur, Guillermo, Lencinas, Maria Vanessa, Rodríguez Souilla, J., Cellini, Juan Manuel, Cosentino, Vanina Rosa Noemi

“…The system comprises a woody component, which involves any type of tree, interacting with conventional components (herbaceous forage or pastures) under an integrated management system (Gándara et al., 2021). …”
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Simulating infertile acid soils with nutrient solutions: The effects on Brachiaria species by Wenzl, Peter, Mancilla, LI, Mayer, Jorge Edgard, Albert, R., Rao, Idupulapati M.

“…Aluminum toxicity limits plant growth in acid soils. Because of their advanced state of weathering, acid soils of the tropics also tend to be deficient in nutrients. …”
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