Abstract: | In the year 2018, a team at the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Hoče did a research paper, in which the effect of management manner on grassland and the effect of different harvesting procedures on the quality of fodder were analyzed. In the Podravje region, 30 surveys on 30 farms we carried out, and we took examples of the fodder. With the survey, we collected information about management manners on meadows and grasslands, the type and the amount of fertilizers used, the fertilizing method, the number of grass cuttings and the fodder harvesting or drying method. During the vegetation phases of the plants in May, June and July, examples of farmed fodder from the first and the second grass cutting from selected farms were collected. The collected examples were analyzed via NIR at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia. With spectrums and the use of the general measurement formula, the raw proteins content, raw fibre content, NDF, ADF, ash content and raw fat content in the examples of fodder were evaluated. Based on the information about the chemical structure and gas volume, we calculated the net energy value, with the official German regression formula.No significant differences in the collected feed samples of the selected parameters of feed quality, in terms of number of cuts, successive mowing, presence of precipitation and number of grassland turns were found. Only the mowing time significantly affected the amount of raw protein in the feed. The fodder mown in the evening contains more raw protein than the fodder mown in the morning. |
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