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Many important advancements have been made during the past 40 yr as regards forage quality and its effect on ruminant animal nutrition. In the early days of this 40-yr period, forage quality was considered as a product of digestibility and intake, with intake being the more important of the two processes. Factors affecting each of these processes were heavily studied. At the same time, analytical methodology was developed that had relevance to animal nutrition. Examples include the two-stage Tilley and Terry in vitro procedure and the Van Soest detergent system of forage analysis. On the pasture side, definition of plant-animal interrelationships influencing output per animal and per hectare of pasture was a key goal. In more recent years, significant accomplishments have occurred in a number of areas including (i) development of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) for forage quality determination; (ii) forage conservation cedures; (iii) role of crop residues in feeding systems; (iv) minerals and secondary plant compounds that affect forage plant digestion, metabolism, and animal health; (v) digestive kinetics and nutrient availability at different points in the ruminant

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Author

G. C. Fahey; H. S. Hussein

Publisher

The American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; Wiley (ISSN 0011-183X)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)