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forage, etc ; adverse effects; agricultural land; biomass production; capital; climate; environmental sustainability; food production; greenhouses; hydroponics; industry; livestock production; relative humidity; temperature; water conservation; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Hydroponic fodder production in controlled environment (CE) settings have gained more focus in recent years due to the shortage of agricultural land for food production and the adverse effect of climate changes. However, the operation costs and dry matter issues are the major concerns for the sustainability of fodder production in the CE. This study provides a comprehensive literature review on te ...
forage; forage production; forage yield, etc ; Zea mays; agronomy; corn; environmental impact; fertilizer rates; field experimentation; nitrogen fertilizers; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The N application used for the production of forage affects environment stress. The N application rate used for the production of the whole maize (Zea mays L.) plant (WMP) affects the produced feed and environment. We carried out a 2-year field experiment aiming to measure how N application rates affect WMP forage production, and estimated the impact on the environment. Five N application treatmen ...
Cleber Pereira Alves; Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim; George do Nascimento Araújo Júnior; Luciana Sandra Bastos de Souza; Gherman Garcia Leal de Araújo; Carlos André Alves de Souza; Kaique Renan da Silva Salvador; Renan Matheus Cordeiro Leite; Antonio Gebson Pinheiro; Thieres George Freire da Silva
forage; forage yield, etc ; agronomic traits; cacti and succulents; continuous cropping; intercropping; Brazil; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Clarifying cultivation techniques and making production systems more efficient are practices that have been much sought after in agricultural systems in recent decades. In this context, the forage yield, biological efficiency, and competitive ability, of different cultivation strategies for intercropping forage cactus and sorghum were determined in biosaline production systems from 2018 to 2020 in ...
... In animal foraging, the optimal search strategy in an unknown environment varies depending on the context, such as the resource density and season. When food is distributed sparsely and uniformly, superdiffusive walks outperform normal-diffusive walks. However, superdiffusive walks are no longer advantageous when random walkers forage in resource-rich environments. It is not currently clear whethe ...
forage; forage production, etc ; beef; biomass; carcass weight; chemical composition; cold season; pastures; steers; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Our objective was to determine the effects of grazing annual forage mixtures on forage, animal, and carcass performance of steers compared with cool-season perennial pasture during the finishing period. Red Angus–influenced steers (n = 24/year over 3 yr) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 forage treatments: mixed pasture (control; MIX); 2-species small grain–brassica mixture (simple, SIMP); or 5-spe ...
forage; forage crops; forage yield, etc ; drought; drought tolerance; environmental factors; genetic improvement; intraspecific variation; phenotype; salinity; salt stress; salt tolerance; stress response; Africa; Show all 14 Subjects
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... MAIN CONCLUSION: Some salt stress response mechanisms can translate into sorghum forage yield and thus act as targets for genetic improvement. Sorghum is a drought-tolerant cereal that is widely grown in the vast Africa’s arid and semi-arid areas. Apart from drought, salinity is a major abiotic factor that, in addition to natural causes, has been exacerbated by increased poor anthropological activ ...
forage; forage production, etc ; Spermophilus; administrative management; ecology; ground squirrels; livestock; public opinion; rangelands; California; Show all 10 Subjects
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... California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus spp.) cause more economic damage to California rangelands than any other rodent. Damage comes in many forms, although forage loss is typically the greatest concern. These losses are believed to be significant for ranchers, particularly given the economically marginal environment in which they exist, yet our understanding of these economic losses is limi ...
forage; forage yield, etc ; Lecanicillium lecanii; Ocimum basilicum; azadirachtin; castor oil; leaves; neem oil; pests; research; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Studies on seasonal incidence, damage intensity and management of leaf folder, Orphanostigma abruptalis on Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) revealed that the pest population was at its peak (4.4 larvae per plant) during 46ᵗʰ standard week of 2020 and the population started declining from 47ᵗʰ standard week of 2020. The damage intensity of leaf folder was assessed by comparing the yield of fresh herb ...
forage; forage production, etc ; aboveground biomass; biomass production; cold season; conspecificity; grasslands; species richness; warm season; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The extent to which individuals experience interspecific and intraspecific interactions through their spatial arrangements within diverse plant communities, whether because of confounding effects of species richness, evenness or direct changes in species patch sizes on their neighbourhood relationships, could affect grassland biomass production and its stability at community scales. Elucidating th ...
forage; forage yield, etc ; body condition; heart; horses; lead; morphometry; neck; obesity; pastures; rump; sample size; Show all 12 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Obesity can negatively impact upon equine welfare and bodyweight (BW) of pastured equines is often difficult to manage. OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of three restricted grazing regimens on changes in pony BW and morphometric measurements. STUDY DESIGN: Randomised study. METHODS: Twelve mature ponies were individually grazed in 10m wide, rectangular, electric fenced paddocks. The ...
... Copper (Cu), as an essential element, is added to animal feed to stimulate growth and prevent disease. The forage crop alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) produced during Cu phytoextraction may be considered a biofortified crop to substitute the Cu feed additives for livestock production, beneficially alleviating Cu contamination in soils and reducing its input into agriculture systems. To assess this, a ...
... Cowpea grains constitute a nutritious food to humans, while resource-poor farmers use its fodder and shell in fattening livestock during the dry season in Niger. Owing to the high price of these commodities, especially in the hot, dry season, the development and adoption of dual-purpose varieties adapted that period may significantly lower the cost of cowpea products to farmers. To that end, 12 co ...
Antonio Marcos Quadros Cunha; Vitor Hugo Maués Macedo; Joelma Kyone Silva de Oliveira; Deyvid de Menezes Melo; Felipe Nogueira Domingues; Ebson Pereira Cândido; Cristian Faturi; Aníbal Coutinho do Rêgo
forage; forage production, etc ; crude protein; grasses; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; nutrient use efficiency; plant nutrition; tropics; urea; Show all 10 Subjects
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... The use of nitrogen fertilizers intensifies forage production, especially in tropical climates. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of nitrogen fertilization on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of Massai grass grown in a humid tropical climate, specifically Am-type. A completely randomized design was used with six treatments and five replicates. The treatments used were a cont ...
... Forage yield is traditionally measured by manual harvesting, drying, and weighing and has multiple uses, including plant breeding and pasture management. The goal of this paper was to determine the accuracy of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based prediction of ryegrass percentage cover, vegetation volume, and dry matter (DM) yield in Autumn from 300 rectangular 1.5 m² plots at a height of 20 m abov ...
forage; forage legumes, etc ; agronomy; autumn; cultivars; domestication; greenhouse experimentation; leaves; rain; rangelands; summer; wet season; Western Australia; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Tedera is a Mediterranean perennial herbaceous forage legume that remains green during summer and autumn with minimal leaf drop when grown in the medium to low rainfall zones of Western Australia. This unique attribute allows out-of-growing-season grazing that can complement the traditional grazing system based on winter annual species. Tedera is a traditional rangeland forage in the Canary Island ...
... Fish schools reduce their predators' encounter rates not only by performing evasive maneuvers but also by increasing distances between prey patches. However, a similar challenge applies to isolated prey fish seeking refuge during periods of diel school formation. We demonstrate with an Ideal Gas movement model that as the stock sizes of a fish who forms schools daily decreases, school densities do ...
... Delayed harvest during different periods of the year may help to increase the multifunctionality in terms of simultaneous flowering resource and forage provision of ley grassland. Interaction effects of harvesting regime and the grass sward composition on herbage yield and quality were therefore investigated in two multispecies swards in the present study (a simple sward with five vs. a complex sw ...
forage; forage yield, etc ; Triticum aestivum; cultivars; field experimentation; grain yield; protein content; seeds; semiarid zones; spring; winter wheat; China; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Dual‐purpose winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has been advocated on the Loess Plateau of China to fill feed gap and integrate crop–livestock systems; however, the effects of sowing date on the recovery after cutting and interactions between various management practices are largely unclear. Field experiment was conducted in 2015–2017 in semiarid northwestern China to investigate the effects of s ...
forage, etc ; cattle; cattle feeds; nutrient content; Indonesia; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Compacted feed such as wafers and pellets is still rarely given to cattle shipping in Indonesia because it requires an adaptation period to the newly introduced feed. This study aimed to observe forage compacted feed potency to minimize the adaptation period of kupang cattle to a new feed with high nutrient content. Two experiments were carried out to observe six feed formulations and four differe ...
forage, etc ; birds; cameras; insectivores; plant litter; Tanzania; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Using camera traps and direct observations, we recorded interactions between three species of giant sengi (Rhynchocyon sp.) and two insectivorous bird species from six forests in Tanzania. In all instances, the birds closely followed the giant sengis who were moving and foraging in the leaf litter. Given that the two bird species are insectivorous and follow ant swarms to obtain flushed prey, thes ...