Silage effluent: Problems and solutions Silage effluent is one of the products of silage making that leaks out of the silo shortly after the start of...
Raw soybeans for sheep to reduce feed costs Adding raw soybeans in the diet of sheep increases milk yield. This is according to Brazilian research.
Feeding field beans: Watch the milk quality Dairy farmers considering using field beans as a source of protein in the diet for their cows should be cautious...
Microalgae: Not too much in dairy cow diets Microalgae can be used as an animal feed source. But the applications in cattle feed are still limited. Some...
Lemongrass and rosemary for dairy goats Supplementation of lemongrass and rosemary in the diet of lactating Damascus goats has a positive effect on...
Nutrition and its effect on milk composition Many factors that can affect milk composition and therefore the quality of the milk. Along with environmental...
AFBI to delve in precision feeding for cows Researchers at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) in the UK have initiated a major new project to...
Heat stress: Yeast and antioxidants can help As we see the consequences of climate change, heat stress becomes a growing issue for high producing cattle....
Dietary nitrate for cows reduces methane Cows produce less methane when they are fed nitrate-amended feed. Now results show that this can result in...
On-farm dairy partnership between Alltech and COVAP Alltech announces a new on-farm dairy partnership with COVAP, one of Spain’s largest farmer co-operatives. The...
Farmers advised to show caution in co-product feeding Dairy and beef farmers using low-cost liquid co-products in livestock diets this winter could be unaware of the...
Cow diets tailored to individual yield potentials Danish scientists are developing strategies for tailoring the allocation of concentrates to the individual cow,...
Sow diet important for piglet survival The diet fed to sows at the end of their pregnancy affects the production of colostrum and, to a certain extent,...
German farmer increases milk yield by 1,000 litres per cow Making a number of significant management changes within his herd has resulted in a German dairy farmer...
The best feed efficiency: Holstein or Jersey? At the recently held EAAP conference, a study was presented by Bingjie Li, a researcher from Aarhus University...
Using feed additives to improve milk production efficiency In order to maximise profitability from the production of cows’ milk, farmers are increasingly focused on...
Feed efficiency: Finding ways to improve profitability Dairy farmers are continually striving to find ways to improve profitability, as they are permanently facing...
Programming: For nerds and nutritionists? When I hear ‘programming’, I think of people sitting behind a computer and doing software programming for many...