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Book of Abstracts First Legume Society Conference 2013: A Legume Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013
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The use of legume crop residues in livestock feeding
Yaşar Özyiğit, Bilal Aydınoğlu
Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
The human population of the world is increasing rapidly in recent. Therefore feeding of world
population is becoming big problem in many places. Increasing of human food requirements
induce more production. Because of agriculture areas are limited, food output gap try to cover by
the obtain more product in unit area. One of the most efficient method in this issue is use of
crop residues as livestock feeding. Crop residues are an important renewable resource that can be
used in livestock feeding. Crop residue is defined as the non-edible plant parts and they are
remain after the grain or marketable portion of the plant is removed. The most common is cereal
grain straw from wheat, barley and rye, followed by corn stalks, grain sorghum residue and sugar
beet tops. The utilisation of crop residues can be improved in several ways. Generally while cereal
residues is grazed in field, legume residues are often collected as hay for sale or stall feeding. In
addition, crop residues contain very low crude protein and a large proportion of lignocellulosic
cell wall constituents. But the composition of chemical constituent and biological attributes of
crop residue vary with different species. For example, legume crop residues have higher
concentration of crude protein and digestible energy than cereal residues. So, despite their greater
lignification, legume residues are degraded in the rumen at a faster rate than cereal straws, leading
to a higher extent of degradation and, consequently, to higher dry matter digestibility. In this
review, information about important of legume crop residues was presented.
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