Description
- dual-purpose variety that can be grown exclusively as a forage or silage or as a grain crop with the crop residue used as forage
- provides smaller livestock operations and dairies there with access to improved forage quality without sacrificing dry matter yield, grain yield or grain quality
- bmr mutations result in lower lignin (woody cellulose) content in the plant, providing higher forage digestibility while also increasing palatability
- provides farmers with small acreage access to an improved forage variety that they can save the seed from year to year
- good grain quality, so they can harvest the grain and use it separately or integrate it into the silage crop
- CI0947bmr was officially released by several National Agricultural Research Programs: in Guatemala as ICTA F947; in El Salvador as CENTA S-3bmr; and in Nicaragua as INTA CI0947
