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Moscow, Russian Federation
Corn silage is an important component of the rations for high productive dairy cattle due high nutritive value – about 30% of starch in the plants dry matter at harvesting in wax ripeness of grain. Specialized hybrids of corn are an excellent raw material for production of the fermented fodders with high energy concentration. The article presents market review of mid- and early-maturing corn hybrids, cultivated on farms in the Central region of the Russian Federation for silage over the past three years. The total 52 new early-maturing corn hybrids were included in the State Plant Register, but on the current moment the most part (about 60%) is the achievements of foreign breeding.
fodder production, early-maturing corn hybrids, silage, feed quality
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