Claim · model-written summary
A 40-day cutting schedule generally gave the greatest forage accumulation in the first production year.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- 40‐d cutting schedulee0
- Outcome
- forage accumulatione0
- Direction
- greateste0
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Verbatim
e0“first production year forage accumulation was generally greatest when alfalfa was harvested on a 40‐d cutting schedule”
t0“Alfalfa”
Title
Forage Accumulation and Nutritive Value of Reduced Lignin and Reference Alfalfa Cultivars
Amanda M. Grev; M. Scott Wells; Deborah A. Samac; et al. Agronomy Journal 2017. doi:10.2134/agronj2017.04.0237
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Reduced lignin and reference cultivars did not consistently differ in forage accumulation.
- Intervention effect A fall harvest increased establishment year forage accumulation.
- Observation Reduced lignin cultivar 54HVX41 had 8% less acid detergent lignin than reference cultivars.
- Observation 54HVX41 had 10% greater neutral detergent fiber digestibility than reference cultivars.
- Observation 54HVX41 and reference cultivars had similar crude protein and neutral detergent fiber concentrations.
- Intervention effect Shorter harvest intervals increased forage crude protein and fiber digestibility.
- Intervention effect Shorter harvest intervals decreased neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent lignin concentrations.
- Intervention effect With a five-day harvest delay, 54HVX41 had a 21% forage mass gain over reference cultivars harvested at 30 days.
- Intervention effect With a five-day harvest delay, 54HVX41 had a 3% reduction in relative forage quality against reference cultivars harvested at 30 days.