Agronomic traits and growing cattle performance for whole-plant corn and forage and grain sorghum silages
dc.citation.epage | 77 | en_US |
dc.citation.spage | 75 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Dalke, B.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sonon, R.N. Jr. | |
dc.contributor.author | Holthaus, D.L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pfaff, L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bolsen, K.K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Young, Matthew A. | |
dc.contributor.authoreid | mayoung | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-17T20:55:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-17T20:55:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-09-17T20:55:16Z | |
dc.date.published | 1994 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Agronomic and cattle performance traits were measured for the following silages produced in 1992: irrigated Pioneer 3377 corn, ensiled with or without BiotalĀ® silage inoculant; DeKalb 42Y grain sorghum; and Cargill 200F, Pioneer 947, DeKalb FS-5 and FS-25E, and Northrup King (NK) 300 forage sorghums. All sorghums were grown under dryland conditions. The irrigated corn had the highest whole-plant dry matter (DM) and grain yields, and NK 300 and DeKalb FS-5 had the highest whole-plant DM yields among the sorghums. NK 300 also had the highest grain yield among the sorghums; DeKalb FS-5 and FS-25E had the lowest. Steers fed the irrigated corn silages had the fastest and most efficient gains, and the late-season forage sorghum, DeKalb FS-25E, produced the slowest and least efficient gains. Inoculating the corn silage increased DM recovery, fermentation efficiency, and steer gain per ton of crop ensiled. | en_US |
dc.description.conference | Cattlemen's Day, 1994, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 4, 1994 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4974 | |
dc.publisher | Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Cattlemenās Day, 1994 | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 94-373-S | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 704 | en_US |
dc.subject | Beef | en_US |
dc.subject | Silage | en_US |
dc.subject | Corn | en_US |
dc.subject | Sorghum | en_US |
dc.subject | Growing cattle | en_US |
dc.title | Agronomic traits and growing cattle performance for whole-plant corn and forage and grain sorghum silages | en_US |
dc.type | Conference paper | en_US |