Claim · model-written summary
More severe maceration increased juice and dry matter extraction.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- maceration was more severee0
- Outcome
- proportion of juice and dry matter extractede0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“The proportion of juice and dry matter extracted increased when alfalfa was wetter, when maceration was more severe”
Title
POTENTIAL OF FORAGE JUICE EXTRACTION FROM MACERATED ALFALFA MATS
P. Savoie; S. Beauregard Transactions of the ASAE 1991. doi:10.13031/2013.31776
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation On average, 15% of wet alfalfa was extracted as juice.
- Observation Extracted juice averaged 9.5% dry matter.
- Observation Extracted juice contained 34% protein.
- Observation Extracted juice contained 5% fiber.
- Association Wetter alfalfa increased juice and dry matter extraction.
- Association Lower windrow density before pressing increased juice and dry matter extraction.
- Observation Simulated field juice extraction ranged from 1.1 to 6.2 t/ha.
- Observation Simulated field dry matter extraction ranged from 135 to 548 kg dry matter/ha.