Data/hora: 13/06/2024 07:08:19

Provedor de dados: | 70
País: | Brazil
Título: | Fragment size of corn silage according to the dry matter and forage harvester adjustments
Autores: | Weirich Neto,Pedro H.; Garbuio,Paulo W.; Souza,Nátali M. de; Delalibera,Hevandro C.; Leitão,Khetlen.
Data: | 2013-08-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Ensilage; Whole plant silage; Harvest time.
Resumo: | In Brazil, the best results in milk production are found in the state of Paraná. Such results are reached through genetic selection of the animals and management of their diets, in which whole plant corn silage is widely used. Aiming the silage quality, it was evaluated the influence of dry matter content of the corn culture as forage and the harvester adjustments on the fragment size of whole plant corn silage. The fragment size of two corn hybrids silage (SPEED and 2B688) was evaluated using a 5x3 factorial, with 4 repetitions. The first factor was the harvest time of the plants (105, 108, 112, 118, and 123 days after sowing (DAS)), which determines the forage dry matter (DM) content. The second factor was the harvester adjustments (2, 6.5 and 11mm of theoretical fragment length (TFL)). The DM content did not affect the average fragment size of 2B688. For SPEED, however, the real fragment size decreased as the maturation of plants increased. The conclusion is that the DM content and harvester adjustments can affect the real fragment sizes, according to different plant genotypes. The alterations of the harvester adjustments resulted in different fragment sizes, however, it were different from those indicated by the manufacturer.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69162013000400016
Editor: | Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-69162013000400016
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Engenharia Agrícola  v.33 n.4 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess