The harvesting of unripe green wheat for silage, which recently raised concerns, was due to shortages of corn silage at a few cow breeding farms in North China's plain area, a dairy industry official ...

Wheat has long been grown on the Texas High Plains, but fewer producers are taking the crop to grain harvest, opting instead to cash in on diverse forage options for livestock producers, according to ...

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 ...

As other crop models, the forage wheat model may be used by researchers, educators or students to understand the mechanisms underlying forage wheat biomass production -- or by growers or extension ...

Farmers reaping unmatured wheat fields in China to feed livestock have raised concerns over food security in the populous nation, though experts and industry insiders said the amount of crops being ...

Several factors make the difference between abundant wheat pasture grazing and poor forage production for cattle.

With more than 3 million acres of wheat in north Texas, 50 percent or more of which is grazed by 1 to 2 million head of cattle, it is important to look at tillage practices and their effect on forage ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Many Hoosier producers who planted winter wheat may not be familiar with managing the crop as a forage, a Purdue University experts say. Growers used emergency provisions from ...

Winter wheat is an important forage crop for Texas beef cattle producers. A new DSSAT crop model created by researchers at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton will allow ...

WIESBADEN – In 2016, the area used as arable land in Germany remained constant (11.8 million hectares) compared with the last few years. Based on provisional data of the land use survey, the Federal ...