1. R(D)SVS data 2 Mansbridge and Gooch (1985) 3 MAFF (1986)
2. Nutrient profile of barley grass The effect of time on nutrient proportions is clearly seen in the table (based on data obtained by Peer and Leeson 1985a)
3. Nutritive value of barley grass An early review (Leitch 1939) on the use of sprouted grain for livestock feeding showed that some investigators found improvements in livestock performance whilst others observed no effect. More recent findings are given below
4. Pigs and poultry Recently Peer and Leeson,1985
5. fed 7 day sprouted oats to dairy cows but were unable to measure improvements in milk production or milk quality. In contrast, some Russian work (Grigorev and others 1986) has shown that replacing 50 per cent of maize silage with 18 kg hydroponic barley grass increased milk;Thomas; Reddy,1962