Acknowledgement
Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development supported funds for this research work (Project No. PJ01358902). The project titled "technique development for the manufacture of high-quality legume silage "sponsored by RDA, Korea. This study was also supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the National Institute of Animal Science funded by RDA, Korea.
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