Barley,an herbaceous plant from the grass family,is charactered by stout stems and slim leaves with a height of 100 cm or so.It comes to mature in the summer and autumn of each year.Being yellow or grayish-white,its grain is high in pro-tein content.The starch content therein is only slightly lower than that in corn.Low price makes barley an ideal energy feed.When examined from comprehensive nutritional value,barley plays a vital role in feed.To date,it has been rarely used as rumi-nant feed.This paper reviews the research achievements that have been made on the application of barley in ruminant feeds in the hope to offer reference for future application.
barleyruminant feedsnutritional valuepractical production
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维普
