. 2019 Oct 7;97(11):4625–4634. doi: 10.1093/jas/skz310

Table 4.

Herbage mass and chemical composition of hand-plucked samples of palisade grass fertilized with urea (150 kg N/ha/yr, fertilized), mixed with forage peanut (mixed) and without N fertilization (control)¹

Item²	Treatments			SEM	P-value
	Fertilized	Mixed	Control
Herbage characters
Herbage mass, kg/ha	4980	3690	4820	390	0.0702
Leaves, g/kg	329	309	360	16	0.3985
Stem and sheath, g/kg	302	263	255	18	0.5402
Dead material, g/kg	371	271	364	28	0.1207
Herbage allowance¹	7.55	6.52	7.55	0.7	0.5852
Leaf allowance¹	3.27^a	1.94^b	2.72^ab	0.2	0.0294
Chemical composition
OM, g/kg DM	897^a	883^b	893^ab	3	0.0466
Ash, g/kg DM	101^b	117^a	107^ab	3	0.0327
CP, g/kg DM	112^a	85^b	83^b	5	<0.0001
TC, g/kg DM	756^b	794^a	792^a	7	0.0002
NFC, g/kg DM	169	178	156	8	0.4958
NDF, g/kg DM	589^b	601^ab	618^a	6	0.0355
Hemicellulose, g/kg DM	300^b	305^ab	311^a	4	0.0093
ADF, g/kg DM	296	302	307	4	0.2749
Cellulose, g/kg DM	259^b	268^b	285^a	4	0.0010
Lignin, g/kg DM	25	26	27	4	0.9529
EE, g/kg DM	19	17	19	0.4	0.143
DMD, g/kg DM	620	567	604	15	0.3860
Energy, MJ/kg DM	189^a	180^b	180^b	0.6	<0.0001
TDN, g/kg DM	575	518	553	15	0.3540

¹Average 2-yr evaluation (n = 16).

²BW = body weight; OM = organic matter; CP = crude protein; NDF = neutral detergent fiber; ADF = acid detergent fiber; EE = ether extract; DMD = dry matter digestibility; TC = total carbohydrates; NFC = nonfibrous carbohydrates; TDN = total digestible nutrients.a,bMeans followed by the same letters in the line did not differ by Tukey HSD test (P < 0.05).