Lucerne meal

Lucerne(Medicago sativa L.) is one of the oldest known forage plants and is widely grown in temperate climates. Lucerne can be cut and dried at different stages of vegetation. Since alfalfa meal is preferably used in compound feed for horses and rabbits and these "appendix duration" require a quality rich in crude fibre and rather low in protein, the alfalfa is cut at the end of flowering. Special qualities of cut lucerne are preferably sun-dried. Alfalfa meal contains approx. 27-33 % crude fibre and approx. 14-16 % crude protein.

Illustration of lucerne as a raw material for fodder (© Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer).

Illustration of the raw material lucerne meal (© Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer).

Illustration of forage raw material lucerne concentrate (© Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer).

Lucerne green meal
Ingredients	Content (per kg original substance)
Dry matter, g/kg	900,00
Crude protein, g/kg	170,00
Lysine, g/kg	7,70
Methionine, g/kg	2,60
Methionine +cystine, g/kg	4,60
Threonine, g/kg	7,10
Tryptophan, g/kg	2,50
UDP, % of crude protein	35,00
nXP, g/kg	135,70
RNB, g/kg	5,50
Crude fibre, g/kg	260,00
Crude fat, g/kg	24,00
Sugar, g/kg	44,00
Starch, g/kg	0,00
Starch content consistency, %	0,00
resistant starch (bXS), g/kg	0,00
NDForg, g/kg	378,00
ADForg, g/kg	288,00
NFC, g/kg	193,50
Structural value (SW), /kg	2,55
Crude ash, g/kg	110,00
ME, MJ/kg (pig)	6,90
ME, MJ/kg (poultry)	5,27
ME, MJ/kg (beef)	7,80
NEL, MJ/kg	4,50
Calcium, g/kg	15,40
Phosphorus, g/kg	2,60
digestible Phosphorus, g/kg (pig)	1,30
Sodium, g/kg	0,90

Sources: DLG feed value tables for pigs; DLG feed value tables for ruminants; Rechenmeister 2000 (Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia-Lippe); CVB Veevoedertabel; DLG Information 2/2001 Structure and carbohydrate supply of the dairy cow

Raw material and nutrient lexicon

Lucerne meal

Lucerne green meal

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