Table 2.

Potentially digestible forage mass and chemical composition of forage in Experiment 1

Itema,b	Experimental month
	1	2	3
pdDM, kg/hm2	4820	4050	3410
OM, g/kg	912	913	922
CP, g/kg	77.4	66.6	65.2
NDIN, % of total N	6.94	7.54	9.18
apNDF, g/kg	618	628	679
iNDF, g/kg	225	251	272

^apdDM – potentially digestible forage dry matter; OM – organic matter; CP – crude protein; NDIN – neutral detergent insoluble N; apNDF – neutral detergent fiber corrected for ash and protein residue; iNDF – indigestible neutral detergent fiber

^bpdDM was estimated for forage sampled in the area delimited by a metal square 0.5 m  × 0.5 m ; chemical composition was evaluated in the hand-plucked forage sample