Wheat offers more than one end use Because of wheat’s flexibility, Bell said, it provides many producers an opportunity to harvest for grain or for forage based on markets or weather. With recent ...

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 ...

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

Howdy market watchers. The madness of March is about to begin. It was a record-setting end to February with extreme cold followed by highs in the 60s, a near 100-degree swing from wind chill lows to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The effects of urea-treatment (56 kg urea/t dry matter (DM) at ensiling, and substitution with barley (350 g/kg DM) at feeding, on the nutritive value of whole-crop wheat silage were examined in ...

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 ...

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 ...