Impact of novel harvest strategies and improved cultivars on alfalfa yield and nutritive value in a Mediterranean environment

Sultan Begna, Brenda Perez, Abdelmoneim Z. Mohamed, Katherine Swanson, E. Charles Brummer, Dong Wang, Khaled Bali, Daniel H. Putnam
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Abstract

Background

The development of alfalfa cultivars with improved digestibility may minimize the yield-quality tradeoff, enabling higher quality with late-harvested forage and possibly higher yields.

Methods

An irrigated experiment conducted over 4 years compared 28-d harvest schedules with 35-d harvest schedules and an alternating 21-d and 35-d schedule. Four conventional cultivars and four cultivars developed for higher digestibility were grown under each schedule.

Results

Delayed cutting (35-d) yields were 16% greater and the staggered treatments were 6% higher than the 28-d strategy. The nutritive value decreased significantly with the 35-d schedule, but a “staggered” system provided nutritive value similar to the 28-d schedule while achieving higher yields. The nutritive value of cultivars was in the order of HarvXtra>Hi-Gest> conventional cultivars. The HarvXtra but not Hi-Gest cultivars achieved similar digestibility under the 35-d cutting schedule compared with conventional cultivars on a 28-d schedule.

Conclusions

This study clearly demonstrates that higher nutritive value cultivars of fall dormancy 6–9 grown with staggered or late cutting schedules can increase yields while maintaining higher nutritive value. The combination of staggered or late schedules with improved cultivars can maximize yields while maintaining the nutritive value of alfalfa, potentially breaking the alfalfa yield-quality tradeoff.

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地中海环境下新收获策略和改良品种对苜蓿产量和营养价值的影响
培育消化率更高的苜蓿品种可以最大限度地减少产量质量的权衡,使晚采饲料质量更高,并可能提高产量。方法采用4年灌溉试验,比较28 d采收与35 d采收以及21 d和35 d交替采收。在每个计划下种植4个常规品种和4个高消化率品种。结果延迟采伐(35 d)的产量比28 d的产量高16%,交错处理的产量比28 d的产量高6%。随着35 d的处理,营养价值显著下降,但交错处理的营养价值与28 d相近,产量更高。各品种的营养价值依次为:havxtra >;Hi-Gest>;传统品种。与常规品种28 d的消化率相比,HarvXtra品种35 d的消化率与Hi-Gest品种相似。结论秋冬6-9系高营养价值品种在错开或延迟扦插的条件下,可在保持较高营养价值的同时提高产量。交错或晚播与改良品种的组合可以在保持苜蓿营养价值的同时最大限度地提高产量,有可能打破苜蓿产量与品质的权衡。
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