[HTML][HTML] Feeding Values of Indigenous Browse Species and Forage Legumes for the Feeding of Ruminants in Ethiopia: A Meta-Analysis

S Belete, A Tolera, S Betsha, U Dickhöfer - Agriculture, 2024 - mdpi.com
The foliage of browse species and forage legumes has good nutritional value and can be
utilized as a protein source in ruminant diets. However, its efficient utilization requires the …

Health-promoting ingredients in goat's milk and fermented goat's milk drinks

B Paszczyk, M Czarnowska-Kujawska, J Klepacka… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Goat's milk has beneficial effects on health condition maintenance,
physiological function, and nutrition of both children and elderly people, and according to …

Effect of a silvopastoral system with Leucaena diversifolia on enteric methane emissions, animal performance, and meat fatty acid profile of beef steers

IC Molina-Botero, DM Villegas, A Montoya… - Agroforestry …, 2024 - Springer
The aim of this research was to evaluate dietary inclusion of Leucaena diversifolia into a
grass monoculture (GM) diet and its influence on enteric methane emissions, animal live …

Pigeon pea intercropped with tropical pasture as a mitigation strategy for enteric methane emissions of Nellore steers

AJ Furtado, AL Abdalla Filho, JF Bruno, RP Neto… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Intercropping tropical grasses with legumes has the potential to mitigate
greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production systems. Here, we evaluate pigeon pea …

Extending beyond traditional forage: potential nutritional benefits of native plants in extreme arid insular regions

R Pérez-Reverón, A Perdomo-González… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The scarcity, unstable nutritional quality and environmental cost of imported forages in arid
insular regions like Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (Spain) need exploring sustainable …

Nutritional Value of Climate-Resilient Forage Species Sustaining Peri-Urban Dairy Cow Production in the Coastal Grasslands of Benin (West Africa)

BI Koura, A Vastolo, DD Kiatti, MI Cutrignelli… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Climate change has increased the frequency of drought along the coastal
zone of West Africa, resulting in fodder shortage during the dry season. As forage cropping …

Silages of sorghum, Tamani guinea grass, and Stylosanthes in an integrated system: production and quality

LG Prado, KAP Costa, LM Da Silva… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Crop–livestock integration systems are efficient technologies for diversifying production and
promoting agricultural sustainability. However, less is known about the triple intercropping of …

[HTML][HTML] A pathway for decreasing the water footprint from grazing-based beef production systems in the Tropics

MP Barsotti, RG de Almeida, MCM Macedo… - Agricultural …, 2025 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Water availability shapes agricultural land use patterns, which in turn impacts
water supplies. Beef cattle production is one of the most water-intensive food production …

Agronomic responses and herbage nutritive value of elephant grass (Cenchrus purpureus) genotypes grown as monocrops and mixed with butterfly pea (Clitoria …

PHF da Silva, MVF dos Santos… - Crop and Pasture …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Introducing legumes into grass-based forage systems may increase herbage
nutritive value while reducing the need for inorganic nitrogen fertilisation. Grass–legume …

Proposal and validation of integrated alfalfa silage quality index (ASQI) method for the quality assessment of alfalfa silage for lactating dairy cows

RMH Tharangani, C Yakun, LS Zhao, YF Shen… - Animal Feed Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the variability of alfalfa silage quality, milk production of lactating dairy cows
fed alfalfa silage-based diets and the nexus between alfalfa silage quality and milk yield is …