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Feeding of urea treated whole-crop wheat in grass silage based rations for growing beef cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

S.H. Raza  and
P. Rowlinson
S.H. Raza
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE 1 7RU
P. Rowlinson
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE 1 7RU
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Many feeding , economic and managemental problems have been observed to be associated with the silage feeding (Wilkinson, 1990) e.g.;

  • 1) The high cost of production, losses during storage and damage to the walls and floors of silos.

  • 2) Variation in feed characteristics due to multicut.

  • 3) Effluent and pollution problems.

  • 4) The unpredictable feeding value and tendency to enhance milk fat but not milk protein in lactating animals.

All these factors have forced animal scientists to look for suitable alternatives to grass silage . Whole crop cereals have drawn the attention of workers as a substitute for grass silage due to the following advantages ;

  • 1) The number of cuts and the harvesting cost can be reduced .

  • 2) A high dry matter yield of crop can be obtained with modest application of fertiliser and no effluent problem.

  • 3) The early harvesting of the crop gives more time for the entry of the following crop.

  • 4) More predictable nutritive value , high grain content ( approaching 50 % ) of the total crop yield .

Type
Silage
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1994 , March 1994 , pp. 125
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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References

Wilkinson, J. M. 1990. Whole-crop Cereals : Making and feeding cereal silage. Procd. of seminar held at AFRC. Inst, for Grassland and Animal Production, Hurley Jan .17. ed., Wilkinson, J. M. and Stark, B. A. Google Scholar