Sentence examples for maize and grass from inspiring English sources

Maize and grass fields lacked seed-bearing vegetation and were strongly avoided by most seed-eating birds.

During the growing season, five eddy correlation systems were operated in parallel over some of the more important crops (winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley, maize and grass).

We find a 'land use' effect as high as 36percentt of annual total evapotranspiration, under irrigated maize compared to rainfed maize and grass, respectively.

Manure management in Ref included production and management of liquid and solid dairy cattle manure applied to maize and grass, and liquid pig manure applied to wheat.

On 16 UK livestock holdings within pastoral landscapes, we investigated the provision of plant and invertebrate resources for farmland birds in spring barley and winter wheat cereal-based whole crop silages as alternatives to maize and grass silages.

By this approach, it is concluded that the photosynthetic capacity is nearly equal for all the grain crops (120 140 μmol m−2 s−1) which is moreover 30 40% higher than that of maize and grass.

The grass family, Poaceae, is one of the largest plant families, comprising about 10,000 species including the most important agricultural plants, rice, wheat and maize, and grass-dominated ecosystems comprise about one-third of Earth's vegetative cover and support a vast number of animals [1].

The four diets contained maize silage as the main forage (SV1.2 diet), grass hay as the main forage (SV2.0 diet), maize silage and grass hay in a 4 1 ratio (SV1.6 M diet) or maize silage and grass hay in a 1 1 ratio (SV1.6H diet).

Silage, also called ensilage, forage plants such as corn (maize), legumes, and grasses that have been chopped and stored in tower silos, pits, or trenches for use as animal feed.

Two groups of 4 light and two groups of 4 heavy bulls were randomly allocated into one of the 4 dietary treatments, which formed a 2×2 factorial arrangement of treatments, involving two maturity stages of maize at harvest (i.e. dough stage or dent stage) and two maize silage proportions (i.e. 100% maize silage or 50% maize and 50% grass silage).

Mixtures with 30% straw had temperature peaks of 50°C (maize) and 52°C (grass).