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The selection of winter wheat varieties for whole-crop cereal conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

R.F. Weller ,
A. Cooper  and
R.H. Phipps
R.F. Weller
Affiliation:
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Trawsgoed Research Farm, Trawsgoed, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 4LL
A. Cooper
Affiliation:
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Trawsgoed Research Farm, Trawsgoed, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, SY23 4LL
R.H. Phipps
Affiliation:
CEDAR, Arborfield Hall Farm, Church Lane, Arborfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 9HX
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Interest in conserving whole-crop cereals as a complementary forage for feeding with grass silage has increased sharply in recent years. In many areas of the UK conserving whole-crop cereals is a viable alternative to forage maize, providing extra forage when the available stocks of grass silage are either low or of moderate quality. Although winter wheat is the main cereal used for forage conservation little information is available on the differences between varieties in either yield or quality.

The aims of the present trial were to determine the changes in the yield and quality of winter wheat varieties harvested at different stages of maturity.

Type
Silage and Feeding Behaviour
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 136
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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