Maize stover

Harvesting maize at grain milk stage for human food (roasting and boiling) is also popular. Stovers harvested at grain milk stage are greener and more appealing to ruminants, hence generally have high palatability. More importantly,  they have been shown to have higher nutritive quality due to lower fibre content as compared to stovers harvested at later maturity stage. Given that maize stover is potentially an important source of roughage for dairy cattle production, improvement in their utilization is expected to result into considerable positive impact on the overall productivity.