Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon with or without inoculant on chemical composition, ensiling characteristics, and digestive utilisation of alfalfa silages. Fresh forage was obtained from 3 plots of alfalfa, each one subdivided into 12 subplots. The experimental design was a 2 × 2 factorial (cut AM or PM and with or without inoculant), with three replications (alfalfa plots) and three subsamples (subplots). Forage from each subplot was employed to fill one experimental silo. Variables of chemical composition, fermentation characteristics, and in vitro digestive utilisation were determined. Data obtained were analysed by a mixed procedure and least square means were compared. Correlations between variables of chemical composition of original forage and composition and fermentation of silages, as well as between variables of chemical composition and digestive utilisation of silages were analysed. PM cutting led to silages with higher content of remaining soluble sugars (P = 0.01), lower pH (P < 0.01), lower NH3–N concentration (P = 0.02), and higher IVTDMD (P = 0.03) than silages made in the morning. Providing enough WSC through cutting forage in the afternoon led to improvements in conservation quality and in vitro digestive utilisation and was more effective than inoculating alfalfa.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Afternoon (PM) cutting produced silages with higher remaining soluble sugar content than morning cutting.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- PM cuttinge1
- Outcome
- content of remaining soluble sugarse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- silages made in the morninge2
Not reportedValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e1“PM cutting led to silages with higher content of remaining soluble sugars (P = 0.01)”
e2“than silages made in the morning”
Claim · model-written summary
Afternoon (PM) cutting lowered silage pH compared with morning cutting.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- PM cuttinge1
- Outcome
- pHe3
- Direction
- lowere3
- Comparator
- silages made in the morninge2
Not reportedValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e1“PM cutting led to silages with higher content of remaining soluble sugars (P = 0.01)”
e2“than silages made in the morning”
e3“lower pH (P < 0.01)”
Claim · model-written summary
Afternoon (PM) cutting lowered silage NH3–N concentration compared with morning cutting.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- PM cuttinge1
- Outcome
- NH3–N concentratione4
- Direction
- lowere4
- Comparator
- silages made in the morninge2
Not reportedValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e1“PM cutting led to silages with higher content of remaining soluble sugars (P = 0.01)”
e2“than silages made in the morning”
e4“lower NH3–N concentration (P = 0.02)”
Claim · model-written summary
Afternoon (PM) cutting raised in vitro true dry matter digestibility of silages compared with morning cutting.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- PM cuttinge1
- Outcome
- IVTDMDe5
- Direction
- highere5
- Comparator
- silages made in the morninge2
Not reportedValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e1“PM cutting led to silages with higher content of remaining soluble sugars (P = 0.01)”
e2“than silages made in the morning”
e5“higher IVTDMD (P = 0.03)”
Claim · model-written summary
Cutting forage in the afternoon, which supplied enough WSC, improved conservation quality and in vitro digestive utilisation of alfalfa silage.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- cutting forage in the afternoone6
- Outcome
- conservation quality and in vitro digestive utilisatione6
- Direction
- improvementse6
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e6“Providing enough WSC through cutting forage in the afternoon led to improvements in conservation quality and in vitro digestive utilisation”
Claim · model-written summary
Afternoon cutting was more effective than inoculating alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- cutting forage in the afternoone6
- Outcome
- more effectivee7
- Direction
- more effectivee7
- Comparator
- inoculating alfalfae7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“evaluate the effects of ensiling alfalfa cut in the morning or the afternoon”
e6“Providing enough WSC through cutting forage in the afternoon led to improvements in conservation quality and in vitro digestive utilisation”
e7“was more effective than inoculating alfalfa”
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