Hay Drying in Field Attribution Chris Tomlinson

Digestibility.

Most measures of forage nutritive value are affected negatively by spontaneous heating.

Digestibility is no exception.

As nonstructural carbohydrates and other highly digestible compounds within the forage plant are lost to respiration, concentrations of less digestible plant components (particularly fiber components) increase noticeably. This . . . → Read More: Further Nutritional Characteristics of Heated Hay