Quality of Oats Harvested by Impact Type forage Harvester

A self-propelled flail type flail forage harvester was evaluated for effect on quality of oats fodder at three levels of forward speed of the machine, three levels of flail speed and three levels of rake angle of flail. The minimum loss of moisture (%), maximum crude protein (%) and minimum neutral and acid detergent fibre (%) were obtained with the forward speed of 3.00 km/h, flail speed of 26.86 m/s and flail rake angle of 45°. At this setting corresponding values of loss of moisture (%), crude protein (%) and neutral and acid detergent fibre (%) were 0.57, 8.12, 55.28 and 36.90 per cent, respectively.