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Re: Digestibility of whole crops



At 4:29 PM 3/30/96, Christer=Ohlsson%AFGK%Plante1@sh1.sh.dk wrote:
>For the last 25 years we have relied on in vitro digestion in rumen fluid
>according to Tilley and Terry. For most parts the method has worked fairly
>well for silage, but not for herbage.


Hello Christer Ohlsson,

What precisely is the problem that you are seeing with the Tilley-and-Terry
method (for herbages)? Why do you believe that the digestiblity values are
wrong?

Woody Lane

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