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Aber High Sugar Grass offers a greater level of
soluble carbohydrate in its leaf. It's more digestible - and more
palatable.
Cows mow it to the ground and they convert this
grass' protein into milk protein more easily.
The bottom line is more milk in the
vat.
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Beef and lamb grazing trials run by IGER have
shown an increase in live-weight gains of up to 20% compared to
animals fed a control ryegrass.
Farmers in New Zealand report lamb weight
gains exceeding 400 gms per head per day when grazing AberHSG
pasture.
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Drymatter intake of cattle fed Aber High Sugar
Grass can increase by 25%*
AberHSGs offer a higher ratio of soluble
carbohydrate to grass protein, therefore they are easy to digest
because there's an improved balance of energy to protein in the
rumen.
AberHSGs are more palatable and
digestible.
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Agriculture has entered a new era in which
efficient, home-grown forage production must go hand-in-hand with
environmental considerations.
AberHSGs are digested more completely and
therefore reduce nitrogen wastage.
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AberHSG is widely sown in the UK, Western
Europe, the USA and New Zealand.
In 2009 its developers at Aberystwyth University
and IGER received The Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and
Further Education.
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The perennial diploid cultivars AberDart and
AberMagic are prostrate growing and very densely tillered grasses
that offer a higher drymatter content than many farmers are used to
assessing by eye.
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AberHSG cultivars have a greater content of water
soluble carbohydrate (WSC), or sugar, to boost microbial activity
in the rumen (stomach) during grass digestion.
The impact on cattle, sheep and deer
is they can convert more grass protein into more meat, more
milk.
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Aber High Sugar Grass offers a greater level of
soluble carbohydrate in its leaf. It's more digestible - and more
palatable.
Cows mow it to the ground and they convert this
grass' protein into milk protein more easily.
The bottom line is more milk in the
vat.
Find out more »
