The value of corn stover for Chinese dairy farms

Agriculture & Biology

• corn stover 100%
• dairy farming 87%
• whole crop silage 49%
• stems 45%
• cell walls 40%
• corn 34%
• corn silage 34%
• internodes 34%
• degradation 33%
• silage 31%
• profits and margins 31%
• methane 30%
• silage making 29%
• lignin content 25%
• milk 21%
• gas production (biological) 18%
• rumen fluids 17%
• farmers 16%
• cows 16%
• dairy cattle 15%
• dairies 14%
• milk production 14%
• cultivars 13%
• Pleurotus eryngii 11%
• emissions factor 10%
• water utilization 10%
• leaves 10%
• dairy manure 10%
• Lentinula edodes 10%
• crop residues 8%
• diet 8%
• hemicellulose 7%
• ruminants 7%
• pollution 6%
• Zea mays 6%
• lignin 6%
• excretion 6%
• growing season 6%
• chemical composition 6%
• carbohydrates 5%
• microorganisms 5%
• China 5%
• fungi 4%
• nitrogen 4%
• methodology 2%