Claim · model-written summary
Switchgrass grazing days exceeded those of the big bluestem and indiangrass blend.
- Taxon
- switchgrass
Panicum virgatume2 - Outcome
- Grazing dayse1
- Direction
- exceedede0
- Value
- 389e1
- Comparator
- BBIGe0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“exceeded ( < 0.05) that of BBIG (233 AUD/ha) during Full”
e1“Grazing days for SG and EG were similar (389 and 423 animal unit days [AUD]/ha, respectively)”
e2“switchgrass (SG; L.)”
Title
W. M. Backus; J. C. Waller; G. E Bates; et al. Journal of Animal Science 2017. doi:10.2527/jas.2017.1488
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The big bluestem and indiangrass blend supported higher cattle daily gain than switchgrass.
- Observation Switchgrass supported higher cattle daily gain than eastern gamagrass.
- Observation Switchgrass and eastern gamagrass had similar full-season grazing days.
- Observation Early grazing yielded 211 to 324 kg body-weight gain per hectare.
- Observation Post-grazing dormant-season biomass harvests yielded 7.5 to 10.5 Mg/ha.