Factors affecting the nutritive value of whole-crop cereal silage for beef cattle were examined. In Experiment 1, finishing steers offered barley silage, harvested at the milky (262 g dry matter ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Agricultural researchers with Montana State University have announced a new variety of forage barley, and that technology is now available for licensing. Licensing proposals must be ...

FARGO - Many North Dakota corn fields probably will not mature this year, resulting in an opportunity to harvest significant amounts of silage for animal feed, according to a North Dakota State ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Wheat and Barley Committee released the names of 4 new wheat and barley varieties, which the public helped to name. The Montana Wheat and Barley Committee and Montana ...

The hemicellulose sugars of barley straw can be effectively fermented into biobutanol, when starch is added during the pre-treatment or fermentation process, shows a new study. Seeking to find ...

This limits the types of forage crops that can be reliably grown and harvested for silage. While many U.S. dairies rely heavily on corn silage, Canadian dairies often depend on legume-grass silage ...

Annual cool and warm season grasses are important livestock forages in Montana. Now Montana State University researchers are determining optimal nitrogen rates for these forages and the role of sulfur ...