Article Title
High-moisture or dry corn, roughage sources, and protein supplements for short-fed finishing steers
Keywords
Cattlemen's Day, 1983; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station); 427; Beef; Corn; Finishing steers; Performance; Protein
Abstract
Dry corn, stave ensiled high-moisture corn (HMC), stave ensiled HMC treated with urea, and Harvestore ensiled HMC were evaluated in a steer finishing trial. Alfalfa hay and corn silage were the roughages and soybean meal or urea, the nitrogen sources. There were no differences in steer performance for corn treatments, but steer performance was significantly improved when alfalfa hay rather than corn silage was the roughage. Urea supplements significantly depressed steer performance compared with soybean meal additions; a combination of urea and soybean meal gave intermediate performance.
First page
58
Last page
62
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Young, B.; Ilg, H.; and Bolsen, K.
(1983)
"High-moisture or dry corn, roughage sources, and protein supplements for short-fed finishing steers,"
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports:
Vol. 0:
Iss.
1.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2517
