0 grass or other green plants that are cut and stored, without being dried first, to feed cattle in winter --
Predictions of milk production for high pasture allowance and maize silage supplements were inconsistent.
It was assumed that the grain mixture and the maize silage were consumed completely.
For long-term integrated systems, profitability was greater than conventional due to reduced fertilizer use for both potatoes and silage corn in coupled systems.
Instead, manure was typically applied in the spring to silage corn during the coupled rotation year.
The herbage from the swards was ensiled in laboratory silos and the silage quality analysed.
The grassland area was split into cut-only fields (three cuts for silage) and cut-andgrazed fields (one cut).
Near infrared re-ectance spectroscopy for analysing undried silage.
They were fed alfalfa silage throughout the pre-and postpartum periods with no concentrate supplementation.
