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Corn Silage, Meta-Analysis of The Quality and Yield of Different Regions in the World

Version 1 : Received: 1 October 2020 / Approved: 5 October 2020 / Online: 5 October 2020 (14:29:20 CEST)
(This article belongs to the Research Topic Food Analytical Methods)

How to cite: García-Chávez, I.; Meraz-Romero, E.; Castelán-Ortega, O.; Zaragoza Esparza, J.; Osorio Avalos, J.; Robles Jimenez, L.E.; González-Ronquillo, M. Corn Silage, Meta-Analysis of The Quality and Yield of Different Regions in the World. Preprints 2020, 2020100094. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0094.v1 García-Chávez, I.; Meraz-Romero, E.; Castelán-Ortega, O.; Zaragoza Esparza, J.; Osorio Avalos, J.; Robles Jimenez, L.E.; González-Ronquillo, M. Corn Silage, Meta-Analysis of The Quality and Yield of Different Regions in the World. Preprints 2020, 2020100094. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0094.v1

Abstract

Corn silage (Zea mays L.) is the most widely used energy resource in the diets of dairy cattle around the world; it stands out for its higher biomass yields, good palatability, homogeneous quality at harvest and ease of silage due to its higher soluble sugar content. It was carried out a search of studies related to dry matter yield (ton ha-1), population density (plant density ha-1), dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), non-fibrous carbohydrates (NFC), organic matter (OM), DM digestibility (DMD) and neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFD) and milk production per hectare (kg of milk ha-1) that was determined using MILK2006®. It was carried out a cluster analysis (CL, PROC CLUSTER) obtaining six groups of corn silage: CL1: "Starch", which included DMD, DFDN, TDN1xDM, Mega calories per kg of DM and kg of milk/ton/DM; CL2: "Fats" which included TDN1xMS, Mcal/kg/DM and kg of milk/ton/DM; CL3: "Dry Matter", conformed only by DFDN; CL4: "Plant Density" including Yield of DM ha-1 and Milk Production ha-1; CL5: "Neutral Detergent Fiber" and CL6: "Raw Protein". It is concluded that CL1 was characterized by a higher DMD, DFND, CNF and starch that allow a higher TNDx1DM and an energy concentration (Mcal/kg/DM) that shows a higher milk production (kg of milk/ton/DM ha-1). The characteristics of CL2 with higher EE, allow a higher TNDx1DM and an energy concentration (Mcal/kg/DM) with a higher milk production (kg of milk/ton/DM ha-1).

Keywords

cornsilage; meta analysis; milk production

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Anatomy and Physiology

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