Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest deleteriously changed silage chemical composition except lactate and butyrate.
- Treatment
- delaying the harvesting datee0
- Outcome
- chemical compositione0
- Direction
- deleteriously changede0
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Verbatim
e0“Except for the concentrations of lactate and butyrate, delaying the harvesting date deleteriously changed the chemical composition ( P < 0·001)”
e1“ryegrass herbage yield”
Title
Keady; O'Kiely Grass and Forage Science 1998. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2494.1998.00136.x
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Primary ryegrass herbage dry matter yield increased across K fertilizer levels.
- Intervention effect Herbage K concentration rose across the K fertilizer series.
- Intervention effect Herbage ash concentration rose across the K fertilizer series.
- Intervention effect Regrowth herbage dry matter yield increased across K levels.
- Intervention effect K fertilizer otherwise did not alter herbage composition at ensiling.
- Intervention effect K level had little effect on silage fermentation.
- Intervention effect K level did not affect silage intake potential, digestibility, recovery or effluent.
- Intervention effect Increasing N raised silage buffering capacity, crude protein, ammonia N and effluent volume.
- Intervention effect Increasing N lowered silage ethanol concentration and intake potential.
- Intervention effect Later harvest decreased silage intake potential and digestibility.
- Observation K and N levels and K and harvest date generally lacked interactions for silage fermentation or predicted feeding value, except acetate and ethanol.
- Observation Increasing N had a more deleterious effect on silage composition and feeding value than increasing K.
- Observation Delayed harvest had the most deleterious effect on silage feeding value.