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WHICH BREED IS MORE SUITABLE FOR PASTURE SYSTEMS – HOLSTEIN OR JERSEY?

  • 26 January 2024
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Feed efficiency is highly correlated with economic sustainability on a dairy farm. Cows with higher feed-use efficiency are usually characterized by a higher feed intake per unit live weight, have lower maintenance requirements, partition more metabolizable energy to milk than body tissue, and lose less energy in waste and body weight. Further factors to bear […]

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Perspective: How to address the root cause of milk fat depression in dairy cattle.

  • 26 January 2024
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Milk fat depression is a costly and complex disorder of mostly high-producing TMR fed dairy cows, with milk fat sometimes declining up to 50%. It occurs primarily on high carbohydrate fermentable diets and/or with unsaturated fat supplements. Although known and studied for many years, there is still no way to address the root cause directly; […]

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