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Beef Cattle Progress Report, E. F. Frolik, H. H. Kramer
Beef Cattle Progress Report, E. F. Frolik, H. H. Kramer
Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports
Efficiency of sugar beet farming can be improved by feeding beet top silage to livestock.
In two recent trials at the Scotts Bluff Experiment Station lambs fed unwilted beet top silage as the only roughage gained significantly faster than lambs fed corn silage.
Amounts of concentrates were comparable (Nebraska Experiment Station Quarterly, Fall, 1962).
This experiment compared the feeding value of a complete mixture of unwilted beet tops and concentrate added at the time of ensiling, with beet top silage and concentrate handled separately. A conventional corn silage and concentrate ration was used as a control.
Results showed that a …