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Nutritive Value and Yields of Some Forage Legumes and Barley Harvested as Immature Herbage, Hay and Straw in North-West Syria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

E. F. Thomson ,
S. Rihawi  and
N. Nersoyan
E. F. Thomson
Affiliation:
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria
S. Rihawi
Affiliation:
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria
N. Nersoyan
Affiliation:
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria
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Summary

The nutritive value and yield of forage legumes and barley harvested as immature herbage, hay and straw were measured in two experiments. The voluntary feed intake of peas at all stages of maturity and immature herbage from woollypod vetch was substantially lower than that of common vetch and chickling. At each stage of maturity barley was less digestible than all the forages except immature peas. Despite exceptionally cold weather in February/March 1985, yields of common vetch were higher in 1984/85 than in 1985/86 when there was less rain. Peas yielded the most hay, and chickling yielded less seed and straw than common vetch, peas and barley. Yields of digestible dry matter from straw and seed exceeded those from hay but protein yield at the two stages was similar. Mechanical baling substantially reduced the yields of baled hay but these losses would be reduced to less than 10% if the residues were grazed.

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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 49 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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