Claim · model-written summary
Soybean/grain sorghum silage had a protein yield advantage of 854 kilograms per hectare over whole plant corn silage.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe0 - Treatment
- soybean/grain sorgum silagee0
- Outcome
- protein yielde0
- Direction
- advantagee0
- Value
- 854 kilograms per hectaree0
- Comparator
- whole plant corn silagee0
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Verbatim
e0“In terms of plant nutrient content there was an advantage for soybean/grain sorgum silage in protein yield of 854 kilograms per hectare as compared to whole plant corn silage”
Title
Susan L. Fox TopSCHOLAR (Western Kentucky University) 1989
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Observation Cash expenses and yields showed no significant advantage for either crop.
- Observation Maximum recorded temperature in soybean/grain sorghum silage was 37 degrees Celcius.
- Observation Maximum recorded temperature in corn silage with added anhydrous ammonia was 37 degrees Celcius.
- Observation Maximum recorded temperature in the corn silage control was 24 degrees Celcius.
- Observation Soybean/pearlmillet silage quickly reached a peak temperature of 44 C at 4 days of ensilement.
- Observation The silage did not reach a desirable pH.
- Observation Forage pH fell from 7.4 to 5.1 by day 5 and did not decline further.
- Observation Increases in buffering capacity during fermentation were smaller for soybean/grain sorghum and soybean/pearlmillet silages.
- Observation Buffering capacity increased by 133.5, 290.5, 69.1, 64.2 and 87.4% across the forages during fermentation.
- Observation Corn silage with added anhydrous ammonia had high ammonia-nitrogen levels, .282 and .351%.
- Observation Corn silage with added anhydrous ammonia had 18.0 and 20.1% crude protein.
- Observation Wheat silage reached an intermediary ending pH of 4.0 after gradual fermentation with low lactic acid production.
- Observation Corn silage pH was lower throughout fermentation and reached a stable pH by day 5.
- Observation Fermentation was essentially complete by day 10 in all silages.
- Observation Samples were low in lactic acid and high in acetic acid content.