In the modern times when agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing are combined, there is a lack of supporting forage. It is an important measure for modern aquaculture to "replace grain with grass" and to solve the phenomenon of food competition between humans and animals by planting grass artificially to increase farmers' income. Most forage grasses have the characteristics of high yield, good nutrition and mowing resistance, so a large number of forage grasses appear.

people pay attention to high-quality forage grass. American grain amaranth is a kind of forage and vegetable crops, which is an annual high-yield forage grass with wide adaptability, strong regeneration ability, fast utilization cycle and good nutrition and palatability, so it is deeply loved by livestock and poultry farmers.

American grain amaranth is not a genetically modified variety. Its plants are tall, can grow 3.5 meters high, with erect stems, many branches and lush leaves. Many people will mistake it for an exotic species, and it is not as capable of spreading as water hyacinth and water hyacinth.

Amaranth is an annual, and naturally freezes to death after first frost, mainly harvesting fresh leaves and tender stems in summer and autumn and using them as feed.

1. American grain amaranth is rich in nutrition, good in palatability, and can be directly fed: American grain amaranth is rich in nutrition, with a high crude protein content of 18.97%, among which the crude protein content of leaves is the highest, and the dry matter is basically 21%~28%, which is much higher than that of corn crude protein. When it is used as forage, it can replace some concentrate such as corn and save 31% of feed.

The leaves of grain amaranth have no fluff, good palatability, and are fragrant and delicious. It does not need to be pulped or granulated, and it is directly fed green, which is suitable for harvesting between 61 and 81 cm. Livestock and poultry like to eat it, and it does not contain any harmful ingredients. After feeding, it can prevent some epidemic diseases.

grain amaranth is protein feed, which lacks sugar, so it is not easy to silage alone. It can be silaged with other grasses or corn and wheat straws.

The rest of the green feed can also be sun-dried into hay powder, which is what we call amaranth powder, so that it can be taken and fed at any time and stirred with the feed, and the feeding effect is good.

second, American grain amaranth has wide adaptability, mowing resistance and high yield: American grain amaranth has strong adaptability, and can be planted in both north and south of China, with strong reproducibility and mowing resistance, and the yield per mu can reach 1111 ~ 15111 kg. Although it is drought-resistant, it prefers water and fertilizer, and the yield is higher when there is enough light and water and fertilizer are better.

in general, spring sowing can be mowed 4-5 times a year, and summer sowing can be mowed 3-4 times.

You only need 2 kilograms of seeds per mu, and you can harvest more than 11,111 kilograms. After planting for 45-51 days, you can harvest amaranth, which can be used reasonably. You can harvest and feed 8-11 pigs, 211 rabbits or 311 geese in a year, and you can also mix with other grasses. All kinds of animals like to eat.

High-quality seeds of American grain amaranth: When sowing grain amaranth, we should pay attention not to sow too deep, only 1 cm, and not to cover the soil too thick, and the seed has weak topping ability, only 1.5~1 cm can cover the soil.

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