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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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AGRON 821 - Principles of Forage Quality

Credits: 3

The course provides an indepth study of the chemical characteristics of forage components and the interactions with ruminant physiology and digestion that influence forage feeding value and the laboratory procedures used to evaluate forages for grazing livestock. Students should have knowledge of the basic principles of chemistry, ruminant nutrition, and plant physiology so that they can develop an understanding of the chemical characteristics of forages and how they affect the value of forages to grazing livestock.

Note
Web-based distance AG*IDEA course.

Repeat for Credit
N

Requisites
Recommended Prerequisite: AGRON 251 or AGRON 550, and ASI 320, and STAT 225, or equivalents.

Typically Offered
Summer-Even Years


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