Inadequate analyses and perfecting of fodder quality standards

Abstract

Article is devoted the basic sources of errors at quality definition of bulky forages – by sampling, by amendments at definition of the dry matter content, to infringement of a technique of crude fiber determination. It is impossible to eliminate the errors admitted at the initial stages of the analysis using any subsequent operations and results of a forage quality estimation can appear, thus, absolutely unsuitable for successful application. In this connection questions of perfection of standardization of forage quality by the severe control over observance of a technique of forages sampling, uses of corresponding techniques of dry matter definition depending on a kind of a forage and the strict execution of all stages of a crude fiber definition are discussed. The brief information on addition of new standards with norms of NDF and ADF content for quality categories of bulky forages is given.