REVIEW article
Front. Anim. Sci.
Sec. Product Quality
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fanim.2025.1550492
Alfalfa Quality Improvement and Loss Reduction Technology Advances
Provisionally accepted
- College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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Forage is an indispensable feed for livestock, and the world is currently faces an imbalance in the "human-grass-livestock" relationship with a sharp contradiction between grass and livestock, fundamentally due to insufficient forage resources. It is urgent to promote the development of the high-quality forage industry. According to Mordor Intelligence, the global alfalfa market is expected to reach $25.6 billion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 6.03%. showing a strong growth momentum. Alfalfa, as a high quality forage material with huge volume in the world, optimized its modulation and processing technology, explored the key technologies of improving quality and reducing loss, reducing cost and increasing efficiency, and increased its application path in livestock feeding are the key issues to be solved urgently. This article reviews relevant literature published domestically and internationally, the key technologies for alfalfa storage and processing were summarized, and sorts out the nutritional value of high-quality forage and the key factors affecting its effectiveness, in order to provide references for production technicians and scientific researchers.
Keywords: Forage, alfalfa, bioactive components, conditioning, processing
Received: 23 Dec 2024; Accepted: 28 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Yue Zhang, College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agriculture University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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