Effect of crop maturity stages on yield, silage chemical composition and in vivo digestibilities of the maize, sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass hybrids grown in semi-arid conditions

Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1021-1028

  Gul, Ismail ^a   Demirel, Ramazan ^a   Kilicalp, Numan ^b   Sumerli, Mehdi ^c   Kilic, Hasan ^c  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Cukurova Agricultural Research Institute   (Turkey)

^c Southeast Anatolia Agricultural Research Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ADF; Digestibility; Maize; NDF; Nylon bags; Sorghum; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949094143     PISSN: 16805593     EISSN: 1993601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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