The Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences has developed a variety of alfalfa that will help cows produce more milk

The new product has every chance of becoming the most popular feed source for cows, birds and pigs. The fact is that the new variety of this perennial herbaceous plant of the legume family is improved in two parameters at once: it is 20 percent superior to its competitors in the content of protein, carotene, fiber, vitamins and amino acids, and is also distinguished by high seed productivity. For example, in the standard alfalfa variety Sarga it is 41.5 percent lower. In scientific circles, the variety is already called the most nutritious. “The milk productivity of cows directly depends on the nutritional value of alfalfa. This variety contains ten essential amino acids, four of them are necessary for the growth and development of animals, so it is not surprising that the crops of this crop are growing from year to year,” said a leading researcher at the UrFANITs Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Candidate of Agricultural Sciences Maxim Tormozin. The new product ...