... total cost of producing milk, and high quality forage optimizes the productivity of the animals, increasing the quality of forage available is one of the best methods of ... ...

Greater capacity could be achieved with equipment that enables harvest of high yielding energy forage crops and is adaptable to currently available equipment with minimal modification. An automated harvesting system for experimental plots was constructed to meet these requirements. The unit consis...

Forage Quality Home FORAGE QUALITY OF OLD WORLD BLUESTEMS AND WEEPING LOVEGRASS OLD WORLD BLUESTEMS Old World bluestems (OWB) produce high quality forage during early summer and...

Foragers that feed on hidden prey are uncertain about the intake rate they can achieve as they enter a patch. However, foraging success can inform them, especially if they have prior knowledge about the patch quality distribution in their environment. We experimentally tested whether and how red knots (Calidris canutus) use such ...

From the publication: "Because of high costs, seeding forage crops is considered to be a �high stakes� ... to cooperate are past. Today, success is imperative. Forage producers must minimize risk as much as p...

This paper provides an agent genetic algorithm based on bacteria foraging strategy (BFOA-L) as the feature selection method, and presents the combined method of link-like agent structure and neural network based on bacteria foraging algorithm (BFOA). It introduces the bacteria foraging (BF) action into the feature selection and ...

Current recommendations regarding cutting height of alfalfa are designed to maximize yield while maintaining high quality forages and stand longevity. Forage growers frequently cut forages

... less foraging at lower temperatures; at high temperatures, time spent in thermoregulatory cooling by shuttling between sunny and shaded sites or ... ...

Humans, chimpanzees, capuchins and aye-ayes all display an unusually high degree of encephalization and diverse omnivorous extractive foraging. It has been suggested that the high degree of encephalization in aye-ayes may be the result of their diverse, omnivorous extractive foraging behaviors. In combination with ...

BackgroundForaging bumblebees are normally associated with spring and summer in northern Europe. However, there have been sightings of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris during the warmer winters in recent years in southern England. But what floral resources are they relying upon during winter and how much winter forage can they collect?Methodology/Principal ...

... to high forage and seed yields of small grain crops under simulated grazing. High temperatures cause reversible alterations ... to high forage and seed yields of small grain crops under simulated grazing....

There are at least five scales com- monly used worldwide to describe stages of growth of wheat and other small grains of wheat and how management inputs at specific growth stages can affect for- age and grain yield. Probably significant event in achieving high yield of grain and/or forage in wheat is stand establishment. Planting

Lambs were grazed on monospecific swards of one of six forages, some containing condensed tannins (CT); sulla (Hedysarum coronarium), Lotus corniculatus and L. pedunculatus and some without CT (lucerne (Medicago sativa), plantain (Plantago lanceolata) and a ryegrass/white clover pasture (Lolium perenne/Trifolium repens)) to evaluate effects of forage type ...

From "Forage Establishment: Getting Off to a Good Start": "Profitable ruminant livestock production depends on the production of high-quality forages. High yields can only be obtained from a ... ...

All forager (or hunter-gatherer) societies construct niches, many of them actively by the concentration of wild plants into useful stands, small-scale cultivation, burning of natural vegetation to encourage useful species, and various forms of hunting, collectively termed 'low-level food production'. Many such niches are stable and can continue indefinitely, because ...

This report describes the foraging pattern of the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius in a high-density population of colonies. The foraging pattern has both promoted and been influenced by the colony distribution. Pogonomyrmex badius forages from short trails which extend into a surrounding ...

This report describes the foraging pattern of the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius in a high-density population of colonies. The foraging pattern has both promoted and been influenced by the colony distribution. Pogonomyrmex badius forages from short trails which extend into a surrounding ...

Performance and production of growing cattle (Bos taurus) on Coastal Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] pasture are affected by forage allowance, but possible interactions with fertilizer nutrient source (i.e., inorganic vs. organic) and time have not been well described. We evaluated the effects of 3 nutrient sources with equivalent N rates: 1) inorganic, 2) crimson ...

Arkansas beef producers rely on both warm season (bermudagrass) as well as cool season (usually endophyte-infected tall fescue) perennial forages to achieve as close to a 12-month grazing season as possible. Even with this combined warm-cool season forage system, ¿forage gaps¿ still exist at certai...

From "Virginia's Horse Pastures: Forage Establishment": "Well-managed pastures can provide a relatively inexpensive and high-quality feed source for horses in Virginia. In contrast, poorly ... ...

Apr 10, 2007 ... Corn and small grain harvests begin with the harvest of silage and .... forage ( hay or silage), 2) high quality forage (hay or silage), ...

... Ambystoma maculatum). In parameterized models, high gape-limited predation risk was predicted to select for intense foraging and ... salamander larvae from populations naturally exposed to constant predat...

The ability to transform chloroplasts in multiple species is important for improving agricultural traits. Chloroplast transformation of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), a useful forage plant with high market value, was achieved using a vector carrying aadA and gfp genes being introduced into the chloroplasts of alfalfa via particle ...

The effect of stocking rate on forage growth has attracted a great deal of research attention in forage science. Findings show that forage growth may be affected by stocking rate and there is the consensus that high stocking rates lead to soil compaction, which could also in turn affect forage ...

Managing forages as living mulches during row crop production requires suppressing the forages to produce economical crop yields. The objective of this research was to identify forage plants with varied growth habit, persistence, and yield potential to provide desirable ecosystem functions and high ...

This work gives a proof of convergence for a randomized learning algorithm that describes how anoles (lizards found in the Carribean) learn a foraging threshold distance. This model assumes that an anole will pursue a prey if and only if it is within this threshold of the anole`s perch. This learning algorithm was proposed by the biologist Roughgarden and his colleagues. They ...

Sustainability of agriculture is a major concern in the Southern High Plains where demand for good quality forages by the beef cattle feeding and dairy industries and declining ground water resources are threatening the future of irrigated crop production. The greater water use efficiency of forage ...

Bermudagrass is the most important warm-season grass forage for the South. Cultivars with good quality traits such as high dry matter digestibility have translated into higher daily gains for beef and improved milk production in dairy cattle. A forage bermudagrass core collection consisting of 168...

... to maintain colonies of T. trinervoides in the laboratory to study foraging. Five small mounds (9�15 cm high) were excavated, including the ... litter foraged at various temperatures by Trinervitermes tri...

We propose a method of automatically generating qualitative equations, i.e., monotonic and differential relations among the variables, to model and analyze macro-behaviors of foraging in ant colony. Foraging is a well-coordinated group behavior of ant colony, which is achieved by the cooperation of individual ants. We executed ...

Sonar techniques were used to quantitatively observe foraging predators and their prey simultaneously in three dimensions. Spinner dolphins foraged at night in highly coordinated groups of 16-28 individuals using strict four-dimensional patterns to increase prey density by up to 200 times. Herding exploited the prey's own avoidance ...

Forage nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentration is an important indicator of forage quality. Performance of cattle fed forage containing high NSC concentration is improved, but horses fed forage with high levels of NSC enriched with fructans can promote laminitis. ...

1. Identification of foraging behaviour and the ability to assess foraging success is critical to understanding individual and between-species variation in habitat use and foraging ecology. For pelagic predators, behaviour-dependent foraging metrics are commonly used to identify important ...

The success of most foragers is constrained by limits to their sensory perception, memory, and locomotion. However, a general and quantitative understanding of how these constraints affect foraging benefits, and the trade-offs they imply for foraging strategies, is difficult to achieve. This article develops ...

Numerous models of ungulate foraging behavior have been published, but data on foraging behavior for wild North American ungulates relevant to model testing are scarce. I studied the detailed foraging behavior of elk from autumn through early spring in Washington's shrub-steppe using focal animal sampling and collected ...

Commercial lots of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) hay are often bought and sold on the basis of forage quality. Proper sampling is essential to obtain accurate forage quality results for pricing of alfalfa hay, but information about sampling is limited to small, 20- to 40-kg rectangular bales. Their objectives were to determine the within-bale variation in ...

We compared prefledging growth, energy expenditure, and time budgets in the arctic-breeding red knot (Calidris canutus) to those in temperate shorebirds, to investigate how arctic chicks achieve a high growth rate despite energetic difficulties associated with precocial development in a cold climate. Growth rate of knot chicks was very ...

North American porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) subsist predominantly on low-protein, high-fiber, high-tannin diets. Therefore, we measured the porcupine's ability to digest dry matter, fiber, and protein by conducting digestion trials on eight natural forages and one pelleted ration varying in concentration of fiber, nitrogen, and ...

Planting and harvesting high yielding forage grasses may remove phosphorus (P), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) from surface soils with a long history of broiler litter application. A study was conducted in Alabama¿s Sand Mountain region from 1998 to 2000 to determine tillage and forage systems best suite...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a stress tolerant forage crop grown extensively in the Southern High Plains. However, sorghum forage quality is lower than that of corn. Intercropping sorghum with legumes can improve quality and productivity of forage. However, tall statured sorghum limits the resources...

Over 10 million acres of bermudagrass are grown for forage in Southern United States and is considered a potential feedstock for conversion of biomass to ethanol. Forage grasses have been improved through breeding to obtain high biomass yields and better forage quality (IVDMD). This improved biodeg...

Forty-seven Angus-crossbred steers were used to evaluate the effects of forage species grazed in the last 41 d of the finishing period on rib composition, color, and palatability in forage-finished beef and compared to traditional high concentrate finished. Steers grazed naturalized pastures (bluegr...

Forty-seven Angus-crossbred steers were used to evaluate the effects of forage species grazed in the last 41 d of the finishing period on rib composition, color, and palatability in forage-finished beef and compared to traditional high concentrate finished. Steers grazed naturalized pastures (bluegr...

Red clover (Trifolium pratense) forage yield remains a prime breeding target for improved variety development. In a world of decreasing forage legume breeding resources, rapidly and cheaply phenotyping plants for the highly quantitative trait of forage yield is vital. Many red clover selection pro...

Annual forages were grown in the Central High Plains of the USA in both irrigated and dryland trials and the harvested forage was analyzed for forage composition and energy concentration. Three spring cereal crops (oats, barley, and triticale), three legumes (peas, soybeans, and vetch) and five sum...

Alfalfa is known as the ¿Queen of the Forages¿ as it is primarily used as animal feed for dairy cows, beef cattle, horses, sheep, chickens and other domesticated animals. Alfalfa is the forage of choice due to its high feed value and high biomass production along with its ease of establishment; res...

Alfalfa hay and silage support dairy, beef, sheep, and horse production in the U.S., as well as a growing export market. Alfalfa is relatively low in fiber and high in protein compared to other forages and typically results in high intakes and levels of milk production. In addition to its excellent...

... goats compared with confinement feeding of a high-protein concentrate ration. Forage characteristics affecting meat goat preferences for ... ...