BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Agricultural researchers with Montana State University have announced a new variety of forage barley, and that technology is now available for licensing. Licensing proposals must be ...

Three experiments studied the effects of level of barley supplementation on the liveweight, carcass weight and carcass compositional changes of cull Friesian cows fed silage. Additional objectives ...

Two trials were conducted to study the effect of feeding barley silage on the behaviour and performance of beak-trimmed laying hens. In each trial, 20 hens and 2 roosters were housed in each of eight ...

FARWELL — Barley fields are nothing new in Parmer County. The crop is typically harvested harvested earlier than corn or cotton, then used for livestock feed. John David Cass is exploring a new future ...

We have completed the final fodder budget after the third cut in early September, so we should have enough silage to carry us ...

Inconsistent weather led Aberdeenshire-based beef farmer Murdoch Duncan to stop making silage in favour of feeding calves a cereal diet. Mr Duncan, who runs the 650ha East Lediken farm in partnership ...

The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, shows a new study. Seeking to find ...

Producers seeking a flexible, high feed value forage crop to sow this year should take a close look at whole-crop spring barley. Whole-crop works well in any situation, reckons Keenan nutritionist ...

For many producers, silage making has been a tricky task over the last few years with many struggling to get decent yields let alone decent quality of silage due to some of the most unpredictable ...

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