Grazing livestock on some forages after a drought or freeze can be tricky because of prussic acid. A new variety can help fix ...

Prussic acid toxicity, commonly linked to the consumption of Johnsongrass, is a serious condition that can be fatal to livestock. Recent rains after a period of dry weather have heightened the ...

OZANAM, some time ago, instituted a series of experiments on prussic or hydrocyanic acid in a gaseous state, the results of which he has now laid before the Academy of Sciences. View Full Article ...

But they need to be careful as the conditions are right for nitrate and prussic acid toxicity in forages. Both can be deadly to cattle. Nitrate toxicity appears in forages who have absorbed ...

Besides the commoner violent poisons—the arsenic and strychnine of the wilful poisoner, the prussic acid and carbolic acid of the suicide—there are milder varieties of toxic substances which ...

Prussic acid and nitrate poisonings are very real concerns this year due to the drought. These poisonings may occur in all livestock, but cattle and sheep are the most sensitive. The most ...

Sorghum is a resilient forage crop because it tolerates heat and drought. However, it produces the metabolite dhurrin, which breaks down into hydrogen cyanide, a substance also called prussic acid ...

In the first place the prussic acid content has proved valuable as a means of distinguishing between different types of wild white clover, while screened ultraviolet light has been successfully ...

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